Romblonella
Wheeler, 1935
valid
feminine
Romblonella
Wheeler, 1935a:
5
Type-species:
Romblonella grandinodis (junior synonym of Romblonella opaca), by original designation.
- Romblonella in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini: Wheeler, 1935a: 6 (in key); all subsequent authors to the following.
- Romblonella in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Smith, 1953f: 163.
- Romblonella in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16.
- Romblonella in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Taylor, 1991a: 294.
- Romblonella in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105.
- Romblonella in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Genus Romblonella references
Chapman & Capco, 1951: 114 (Asia checklist); Smith, 1953a: 76 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Taylor, 1991a: 283 (review of genus, partial key); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 381 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 164 (Australia synopsis); General & Buenavente, 2015: 57 (Philippines species key); General, 2016b: 118 (species key); Cantone, 2017: 233 (brief male diagnosis)
Citations
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- General, D. E. M. 2016b. Romblonella longinoi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a new species and first record of the genus from Sabah, Malaysia, with a key to the species of Romblonella Wheeler, 1935. Halteres 7:112-119. 10.5281/zenodo.55319 PDF
- General, D. E. M.; Buenavente, P. A. C. 2015. A second species of the ant genus Romblonella from the Philippines (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Halteres 6:56-62. PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
- Smith, M. R. 1953a. A revision of the genus Romblonella W. M. Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 15:75-80. PDF
- Smith, M. R. 1953f. A new Romblonella from Palau, and the first description of a Romblonella male (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 61:163-167. PDF
- Taylor, R. W. 1991a ("1990"). Notes on the ant genera Romblonella and Willowsiella, with comments on their affinities, and the first descriptions of Australian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Psyche (Cambridge) 97:281-296. PDF
- 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. 1935a. Two new genera of myrmicine ants from Papua and the Philippines. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 15:1-9. PDF
Extant: 10 valid species
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