Temnothorax
Mayr, 1861
valid
masculine
Temnothorax
Mayr, 1861:
68
Type-species:
Myrmica recedens (obsolete combination of Temnothorax recedens), by monotypy.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicidae, Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1861: 68 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 459 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 122.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Forel, 1917: 245; Emery, 1924f: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105.
- Temnothorax as subgenus of Leptothorax: Forel, 1892j: 315; Dalla Torre, 1893: 122; Ruzsky, 1905b: 607; Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Emery, 1915e: 24; Forel, 1915d: 27; Emery, 1916a: 176; Forel, 1917: 245; Bondroit, 1918: 117; Wheeler, 1922: 679; Emery, 1924f: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731.
- Temnothorax as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Forel, 1890b: lxxii; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 96; Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Bolton, 1982: 319; Bolton, 1994: 105.
- Temnothorax as genus: Bernard, 1967a: 185; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 543; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 125; Bolton, 2003: 270.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Junior synonyms
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Antillaemyrmex
Mann, 1920
Obsolete classification(s): Macromischa (Antillaemyrmex)
- Chalepoxenus Menozzi, 1923
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Croesomyrmex
Mann, 1920
Obsolete classification(s): Macromischa (Croesomyrmex)
- Dichothorax Emery, 1895
- Epimyrma Emery, 1915
- Icothorax Hamann & Klemm, 1967
- Leonomyrma Arnol'di, 1968
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Macromischa
Roger, 1863
Obsolete classification(s): Leptothorax (Macromischa), Macromischa (Macromisha)
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Myrafant
Smith, 1950
Obsolete classification(s): Leptothorax (Myrafant)
- Myrmammophilus Menozzi, 1925
- Myrmetaerus Soudek, 1925
- Myrmoxenus Ruzsky, 1902
- Myrmoxenus (Gonepimyrma) Bernard, 1948
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Protomognathus
Wheeler, 1905
Obsolete classification(s): Tomognathus (Protomognathus)
Obsolete classifications
Genus Temnothorax references
See under Leptothorax for pre-2003 references; Bolton, 2003: 270 (genus diagnosis); Radchenko, 2004: 131 (Eastern Palaearctic species key); Radchenko, 2005b: 193 (North Korea species key); Seifert, 2007: 120 (North and Central Europe species key); Terayama, 2009: 181 (Taiwan species key); Zhou et al., 2010: 9 (China species key) ; Czechowski et al., 2012: 366 (Poland species key); Bharti et al., 2012: 334 (India species key); Snelling et al., 2014: 80 (California species key);Salata & Borowiec, 2015c: 129 (eastern Mediterranean species key); Bharti et al., 2016: 748 (Indian species key); Csősz et al., 2015: 1 (nylanderi-group key, taxonomic synopsis); Galkowski & Lebas, 2016: 80 (black species key); Sharaf et al., 2017: 1 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Radchenko et al., 2015 161 (Caucasian species); Catarineu et al., 2017: 143: (Iberian laurae group species key); Cantone, 2017: 241 (brief male diagnosis); Galkowski & Cagniant, 2017: 190 (angustulus group, angustulus species group key); Prebus, 2017: 250 (global phylogeny); Csősz et al., 2018: 106 (Turano-European Temnothorax interruptus species group key); Salata et al., 2018: 801 (Cretan species key); Salata & Borowiec, 2019b: 91 (key to Greek species groups); Salata & Borowiec, 2019b: 121 (key to aveli group from Greece); Sharaf & Aldawood, 2019b: 607 (Arabian species key); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 825 (Colombia species); Rasheed et al., 2020: 380 (Pakistan species key)
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