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Orectognathus Smith, 1853 valid masculine

Orectognathus Smith, 1853: 227 Type-species: Orectognathus antennatus, by monotypy.

Orectognathus in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1853: 227; Emery, 1877b: 81.
Orectognathus in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a: 161.
Orectognathus in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 26 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 148 [Myrmicinae].
Orectognathus in Cryptoceridae, Dacetini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384 [Dacetonini].
Orectognathus in Myrmicinae, Dacetini, Orectognathiti: Brown, 1952j: 10 (footnote); Brown, 1953k: 85; Brown, 1954b: 465; Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 281.
Orectognathus in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Forel, 1892d: 344; Forel, 1893b: 164; Emery, 1895l: 770; Emery, 1896e: 180; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 666; Emery, 1924f: 318; Brown, 1948e: 102; Bolton, 1995b: 40; Bolton, 1999: 1655; Bolton, 2003: 54, 188.
Orectognathus in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
Orectognathus as genus: all authors.
Orectognathus as senior synonym of Arnoldidris: Brown, 1973b: 178 [provisional]; Taylor, 1977: 581; Bolton, 1983: 270; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 40; Bolton, 1999: 1655; Bolton, 2000: 19; Bolton, 2003: 188.

Junior synonyms

Arnoldidris Brown, 1950

Genus Orectognathus catalogues

Mayr, 1863a: 439; Roger, 1863b: 40; Dalla Torre, 1893: 148; Emery, 1924f: 318; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 105 (Asia); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 72 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 51 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand); Bolton, 1995b: 301.

Genus Orectognathus references

Mayr, 1865: 26 (diagnosis); Emery, 1924f: 318 (diagnosis); Brown, 1950e: 144 (Arnoldidris species key); Brown, 1953k: 87 (diagnosis, all species key); Brown, 1958b: 17 (supplement to Brown, 1953k), 22 (Arnoldidris species key), 27 (Orectognathus species key); Brown, 1958h: 36 (New Zealand species); Taylor, 1977: 585 (all species key); Taylor, 1978b: 9 (all species key); Taylor, 1980a: 779 (species notes, supplement to Taylor, 1977 key); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1051 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 150 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 1999: 1655 (diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Bolton, 2000: 19 (diagnosis, species synopsis); Cantone, 2017: 223 (brief male diagnosis).

Citations

Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
Bolton, B. 1983. The Afrotropical dacetine ants (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 46:267-416. PDF
Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 33:1639-1689. PDF
Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 74:101-129. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1950e. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini: V. The delimitation of Arnoldidris new genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 76:143-145. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952j. The dacetine ant genus Mesostruma Brown. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 75:9-13. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953k. A revision of the dacetine ant genus Orectognathus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13:84-104. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954b. A preliminary report on dacetine ant studies in Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:465-471. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958b ("1957"). A supplement to the revisions of the dacetine ant genera Orectognathus and Arnoldidris, with keys to the species. Psyche (Cambridge) 64:17-29. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J.; Ayensu, E. S.; Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) 1973. Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, viii + 350 pp. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr.; Wilson, E. O. 1959b. The evolution of the dacetine ants. Quarterly Review of Biology 34:278-294. PDF
Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1877b. Saggio di un ordinamento naturale dei Mirmicidei, e considerazioni sulla filogenesi delle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 9:67-83. PDF
Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
Emery, C. 1896e. Clef analytique des genres de la famille des Formicides, pour la détermination des neutres. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 40:172-189. PDF
Emery, C. 1914e. Intorno alla classificazione dei Myrmicinae. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe di Scienze Fisiche (n.s.)18:29-42. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Forel, A. 1892d. Attini und Cryptocerini. Zwei neue Apterostigma-Arten. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 8:344-349. PDF
Forel, A. 1893b. Sur la classification de la famille des Formicides, avec remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 37:161-167. PDF
Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
Smith, F. 1853 ("1854"). Monograph of the genus Cryptocerus, belonging to the group Cryptoceridae - family Myrmicidae - division Hymenoptera Heterogyna. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2)2:213-228. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1977. New ants of the Australasian genus Orectognathus, with a key to the known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 25:581-612. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1978b. A taxonomic guide to the ant genus Orectognathus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 3:1-11. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1980a ("1979"). New Australian ants of the genus Orectognathus, with summary description of the twenty-nine known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27:773-788. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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