Vollenhovia
Mayr, 1865
valid
feminine
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae] Dalla Torre, 1893: 61.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Wheeler, 1915i: 51.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Emery, 1912b: 105.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini] Forel, 1917: 242; Emery, 1922c: 163; Wheeler, 1922: 662; all subsequent authors to the following.
- Vollenhovia incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Ettershank, 1966: 81; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 81.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Metaponini: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 105.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Bolton, 2003: 59.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Junior synonyms
- Aratromyrmex Stitz, 1938
- Dorothea Donisthorpe, 1948
- Dyomorium Donisthorpe, 1947
- Heteromyrmex Wheeler, 1920
- †Propodomyrma Wheeler, 1910
- Vollenhovenia Dalla Torre, 1893
Genus Vollenhovia references
Mayr, 1867a: 94 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 61 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903: 213 (diagnosis); Emery, 1922c: 163 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 1026 (Malagasy catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 135, 169, 174 (Asia Aratromyrmex, Vollenhovia, Dyomorium checklists); Ettershank, 1966: 146 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 92 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 80 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Taylor, 1991b: 612 (Australia species key); {ref #2733}: 48 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 422 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 106 (China species key); Terayama & Kinomura, 1997: 1 (Japan species key); Shattuck, 1999: 171 (Australia synopsis); Terayama, 2009: 147 (Taiwan species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 144 (Fiji species key); Bharti & Kumar, 2013c: 181 (India species key); Cantone, 2017: 248 (brief male diagnosis); Sadasivan & Kripakaran, 2022: 21381 (description of worker caste), 21385 (key to Indian subcontinent species (workers)).
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
- Bharti, H.; Kumar, R. 2013c. A new species of Vollenhovia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from India with key to known Indian species. Vestnik Zoologii 47 (2):179-181. 10.2478/vzoo-2013-0018 PDF
- Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. 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. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. 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
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp.
- 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
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- 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
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- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. 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. 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
- Mayr, G. 1867a. Adnotationes in monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10:33-117. PDF
- Sadasivan, K.; Kripakaran, M. 2022. First record of Proceratium Roger, 1863, Zasphinctus Wheeler, 1918, and Vollenhovia Mayr, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Western Ghats of peninsular India, description of three new species, and implications for Indian biogeography. Journal of Threatened Taxa 14 (7):21368–21387. 10.11609/jott.7682.14.7.21368-21387 PDF
- Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
- 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. 1991b. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australasian ants of the Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30:599-614. PDF
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266. PDF
- Terayama, M.; Kinomura, K. 1997. Taxonomic studies of Japanese Formicidae, part 3. Genus Vollenhovia Mayr. Nature & Human Activities 2:1-8. PDF
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