Acromyrmex
Mayr, 1865
valid
masculine
Acromyrmex
Mayr, 1865:
83
[as subgenus of Atta]
Type-species:
Formica hystrix (obsolete combination of Acromyrmex hystrix), by monotypy.
- Acromyrmex in Cryptoceridae, Attinae: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
- Acromyrmex in Myrmicinae, Attini: Emery, 1895l: 770; Emery, 1913c: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 347; all subsequent authors.
- Acromyrmex as subgenus of Atta: Mayr, 1865: 83; Forel, 1885a: 354; Dalla Torre, 1893: 151; Forel, 1893b: 163; Emery, 1895l: 770; Forel, 1899d: 30; Emery, 1905f: 39; Wheeler, 1907d: 670; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Wheeler, 1922: 669.
- Acromyrmex as genus: Emery, 1913c: 251; Forel, 1917: 247; Emery, 1924f: 347; Santschi, 1925a: 355; all subsequent authors.
Obsolete classifications
Subgenera
- Acromyrmex (Acromyrmex) Mayr, 1865
- Acromyrmex (Moellerius) Forel, 1893
Genus Acromyrmex references
Forel, 1885a: 361 (all species key); Emery, 1905f: 40 (all species key); Gallardo, 1916e: 325 (Argentina species key); Emery, 1924f: 347 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 350 (Acromyrmex (Moellerius) diagnosis, catalogue); Santschi, 1925a: 388 (all species revision, key); Creighton, 1950a: 326 (North America species key); Kusnezov, 1956a: 33 (Argentina species key); Gonçalves, 1961: 118 (Brazil species revision, key); Kempf, 1972b: 10 (Neotropical catalogue); Alayo, 1974: 42 (Cuba checklist); Zolessi & Abenante, 1977: 73 (Uruguay species, male genitalia); Smith, 1979: 1412 (North America catalogue); Fowler, 1988b: 284 (Acromyrmex (Moellerius) species key); Cherrett & Cherrett, 1989: 1 (bibliography); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1047 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 54 (catalogue); Cantone, 2017: 183 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 833 (Colombia species key); Adams et al., 2021: 201 (larval development, caste and sex identification); Forti et al., 2022: 8 (key to major Acromyrmex workers in São Paulo State, Brazil).
Citations
- Adams, R. M. M.; Larsen, R. S.; Stylianidi, N.; Cheung, D.; Qiu, B.; Murray, S. K.; Zhang, G.; Boomsma, J. J. 2021. Hairs distinguish castes and sexes: identifying the early ontogenetic building blocks of a fungus-farming superorganism (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 31:201-216. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:201 PDF
- Alayo, P. 1974. Introducción al estudio de los Himenópteros de Cuba. Superfamilia Formicoidea. Serie Biológica. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 53:1-58. PDF
- 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. 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.
- 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
- Cherrett, J. M.; Cherrett, F. J. 1989. A bibliography of the leaf-cutting ants, Atta spp. and Acromyrmex spp., up to 1975. Overseas Development Natural Resources Institute Bulletin 14:1-58. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. 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. 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. 1905f. Revisione delle specie del genere Atta appartenenti ai sottogeneri Moellerius e Acromyrmex. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (6)2:39-54 [pagination of separate: 107-122].
- Emery, C. 1913c. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [V-VII.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:250-262. 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
- Fernández, F.; Serna, F. J. 2019. Subfamilia Myrmicinae. Capítulo 27. Pp. 791-888 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
- Forel, A. 1885a ("1884"). Études myrmécologiques en 1884 avec une description des organes sensoriels des antennes. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 20:316-380. 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. 1899d. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:25-56. 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
- Forti, L. C.; De Andrade, A. P. P.; Camargo, R. S.; Filho, T. M. M. M.; Scudillio, T. T.; Zanuncio, J. C.; Sousa, K. K. A.; Caldato, N. 2022. Taxonomic revision of the leaf‑cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus (Forel, 1893). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science -:12 pp. 10.1007/s42690-022-00815-5 PDF
- Fowler, H. G. 1988b. Taxa of the neotropical grass-cutting ants, Acromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini). Científica (Jaboticabal) 16:281-295. PDF
- Gallardo, A. 1916e. Notes systématiques et éthologiques sur les fourmis attines de la République Argentine. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 28:317-344. PDF
- Gonçalves, C. R. 1961. O genero Acromyrmex no Brasil (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:113-180. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Kusnezov, N. 1956a. Claves para la identificación de las hormigas de la fauna argentina. Idia 104-105:1-56. 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
- Santschi, F. 1925a. Revision du genre Acromyrmex Mayr. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31:355-398. PDF
- Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
- Wheeler, W. M. 1907d. The fungus-growing ants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:669-807. 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.
- Zolessi, L. C. de; Abenante, Y. P. de 1977 ("1975"). Estudio comparativo de la genitalia del macho de las especies de Acromyrmex del Uruguay. Revista de Biología del Uruguay 3:73-86.
Extant: 34 valid species, 21 valid subspecies
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