Myrmecina
Curtis, 1829
valid
feminine
Myrmecina
Curtis, 1829:
265
Type-species:
Myrmecina latreillii (junior synonym of Myrmecina graminicola), by monotypy.
- Myrmecina in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a: 132.
- Myrmecina in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871b: 327; Cresson, 1887: 261.
- Myrmecina in Myrmicidae, Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
- Myrmecina in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1855: 420 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1861: 73 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae]; Dours, 1873: 169 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1874: 73 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 457 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 61 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e: 183 [Myrmicinae].
- Myrmecina in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Wheeler, 1910a: 139.
- Myrmecina in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Emery, 1912b: 105; Emery, 1914e: 41; Emery, 1916a: 169; Forel, 1917: 244; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Emery, 1924f: 230 [subtribe Myrmecinini]; Smith, 1979: 1399; Bolton, 1995b: 36; Bolton, 2003: 71, 255.
- Myrmecina in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
- Myrmecina in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini, Myrmecina genus group: Blaimer et al., 2018: 7.
- Myrmecina as genus: all authors.
- Myrmecina as senior synonym of Archaeomyrmex: Brown, 1971a: 1; Smith, 1979: 1399; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Ogata, 1991b: 119; Bolton, 1995b: 36; Tang et al., 1995: 72; Bolton, 2003: 255.
Junior synonyms
- Archaeomyrmex Mann, 1921
Genus Myrmecina catalogues
Mayr, 1863a: 431; Roger, 1863b: 33; Emery & Forel, 1879: 457 (Europe); Cresson, 1887: 261 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 61; Emery, 1924f: 230; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 117 (Asia); Smith, 1951c: 815 (North America); Smith, 1979: 1399 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 71 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 47 (Australia); Bolton, 1995b: 274.
Genus Myrmecina references
Mayr, 1855: 420 (diagnosis); Smith, 1858a: 132 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1861: 73 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1865: 21 (diagnosis); Emery, 1882a: 275 (Europe & Algeria species); André, 1882d: 275 (Europe & Algeria species); Bingham, 1903: 197 (diagnosis); Emery, 1916a: 171 (Italy species key); Mann, 1919: 337 (Papuasian species key); Emery, 1924f: 230 (diagnosis); Smith, 1948: 239 (U.S.A. species key); Creighton, 1950a: 246 (North America review); Bernard, 1967a: 226 (diagnosis); Ogata, 1991b: 119 (diagnosis, Japan); Morisita et al., 1992: 54 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Terayama, 1996b: 31 (Japan species key); Lin & Wu, 1998: 89 (Taiwan species key); Rigato, 1999: 83 (West Palaearctic species key); Shattuck, 1999: 147 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001a: 138 (China, Guangxi species key); Radchenko, 2005b: 192 (North Korea species key); Zhou et al., 2008: 285 (China species key); Shattuck, 2009a: 3 (Australia species key); Terayama, 2009: 187 (Taiwan species key); Eguchi et al., 2011: 20 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 91 (Fiji Is species key); Deyrup, 2015: 1204 (North America key); Wong & Guénard, 2016c: 137 (Sundaland species key); Cantone, 2017: 216 (brief male diagnosis); Satria & Yamane, 2019: 191 (Sumatra species key); Sheela et al., 2020: 19 (India species key); Okido et al., 2020: 11 (diagnosis, Southeast Asia species key); Liu et al., 2022: 152 (taxonomic update for China), 154 (species synopsis for China), 155 (China species key (workers)); MacGown, 2023: 111 (key to southeastern United States species (workers)); Cantone et al., 2024: 2 (male morphological diagnosis).
Citations
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- 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
- Bernard, F. 1967a ("1968"). Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen. 3. Les fourmis (Hymenoptera Formicidae) d'Europe occidentale et septentrionale. Paris: Masson, 411 pp. 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
- Blaimer, B. B.; Ward, P. S.; Schultz, T. R.; Fisher, B. L.; Brady, S. G. 2018. Paleotropical diversification dominates the evolution of the hyperdiverse ant tribe Crematogastrini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 2 (5):1-14. 10.1093/isd/ixy013 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
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1971a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part IV. Some genera of subfamily Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Breviora 365:1-5. 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
- Cantone, S.; Riccieri, A.; Di Giulio, A. 2024. Fine morphological study of the Myrmecina graminicola (Latreille, 1802) male, with first description of external genitalia in the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmecinae). Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 2024 (1):1-11. 10.1155/2024/5251286 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
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- Cresson, E. T. Sr. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico, together with a catalogue of the described species, and bibliography. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Suppl. Vol. 1887:1-351. PDF
- Curtis, J. 1829. Myrmecina Latreillii. Plate 265 in: Curtis, J. 1829. British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 6. London: published by the author, plates 242-289.
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Deyrup, M. 2015. A new species of Myrmecina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from southeastern North America. Florida Entomologist 98:1204-1206. 10.1653/024.098.0429 PDF
- Dours, J. A. 1873. Catalogue synonymique des Hyménoptères de France. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Nord de la France 3:1-230. PDF
- Eguchi, K.; Bui, T. V.; Yamane, S. 2011. Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part I — Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmecinae. Zootaxa 2878:1-61. 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. 1882a ("1881"). [Untitled. 3e Genre. - Parasyscia, Emery, nov. gen.]. Pp. 235-236 in: André, Ern. 1882d. Les fourmis [part]. Pp. 233-280 in: André, Edm. 1882. 1881-1886. Species des Hyménoptères d'Europe et d'Algérie. Tome Deuxième. Beaune: Edmond André, 919 + 48 pp.
- 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. 1912b. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [I-IV.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:94-105. 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. 1916a ("1915"). Fauna entomologica italiana. I. Hymenoptera.-Formicidae. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 47:79-275. PDF
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Emery, C.; Forel, A. 1879. Catalogue des Formicides d'Europe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 5:441-481. PDF
- Forel, A. 1874. Les fourmis de la Suisse. Systématique, notices anatomiques et physiologiques, architecture, distribution géographique, nouvelles expériences et observations de moeurs. Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 26:1-452. 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.
- Lin, C.-C.; Wu, W.-J. 1998. The ant tribe Myrmecinini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan. Chinese Journal of Entomology 18:83-100. PDF
- Liu, C.; Fischer, G.; Liu, Q.; Peng, Y.-Q.; Economo, E. P.; Guénard, B. 2022. Updating the taxonomy of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in China with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 5182 (2):152-164. 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.2.2 PDF
- MacGown, J. A. 2023. Description of a new species of Myrmecina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from the southeastern United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 149 (1):109-117. [online early] 10.3157/061.149.0106 PDF
- Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1855. Formicina austriaca. Beschreibung der bisher im österreichischen Kaiserstaate aufgefundenen Ameisen, nebst Hinzufügung jener in Deutschland, in der Schweiz und in Italien vorkommenden Arten. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien 5:273-478. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1861. Die europäischen Formiciden. Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Wien: C. Gerolds Sohn, 80 pp. PDF
- 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
- Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Yamauchi, K.; Sonobe, R.; Yamane, S.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1992. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. III. Myrmicinae and supplement to Leptanillinae. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 94 pp.
- Ogata, K. 1991b. A generic synopsis of the poneroid complex of the family Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Part II. Subfamily Myrmicinae. Bulletin of the Institute of Tropical Agriculture Kyushu University 14:61-149. PDF
- Okido, H.; Ogata, K.; Hosoishi, S. 2020. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Myrmecina in Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Kyushu University Museum 17:1-108. PDF
- Radchenko, A. 2005b. Monographic revision of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of North Korea. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 55:127-221. PDF
- Rigato, F. 1999. Myrmecina melonii n. sp., a new ant from Sardinia, with a review of the West Palaearctic Myrmecina (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 131:83-92. PDF
- Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. 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
- Satria, R.; Yamane, S. 2019. Two new species of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from Sumatra. Zoosystematica Rossica 28:183-193. 10.31610/zsr/2019.28.1.183 PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
- Shattuck, S. O. 2009a. A revision the Australian species of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2146:1-21. PDF
- Sheela, S.; Kazmi, S. I.; Roy, S. 2020. Two new species of the genus Myrmecina Curtis, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from India. Far Eastern Entomologist 403:13-19. 10.25221/fee.403.2 PDF
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- Smith, F. 1871b. A catalogue of the aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. [concl.]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:349-415. PDF
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- Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
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- 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
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- Terayama, M. 1996b. Taxonomic studies on the Japanese Formicidae, part 2. Seven genera of Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae and Myrmicinae. Nature & Human Activities 1:9-32. PDF
- 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
- 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
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- Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B. 2016c. First confirmed record of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Malay Peninsula: description of a new species and a key to Myrmecina species from Sundaland. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 50:129-140. 10.3897/JHR.50.8652 PDF
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Extant: 105 valid species, 1 valid subspecies
More statistics†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae
- Acanthomyrmex
- Adlerzia
- Ancyridris
- Aretidris
- Atopomyrmex
- Calyptomyrmex
- Cardiocondyla
- Carebara
- Cataulacus
- Crematogaster
- Cyphoidris
- Dacatria
- Dacetinops
- Dicroaspis
- Dilobocondyla
- Diplomorium
- †Enneamerus
- †Eocenomyrma
- Eutetramorium
- Formicoxenus
- Formosimyrma
- Gaoligongidris
- Gauromyrmex
- Harpagoxenus
- Huberia
- †Hypopomyrmex
- Indomyrma
- Kartidris
- Lasiomyrma
- Leptothorax
- Liomyrmex
- †Lonchomyrmex
- Lophomyrmex
- Lordomyrma
- Malagidris
- Mayriella
- Melissotarsus
- Meranoplus
- Metapone
- Myrmecina
- Nesomyrmex
- Ocymyrmex
- †Oxyidris
- †Parameranoplus
- Paratopula
- Perissomyrmex
- Peronomyrmex
- Podomyrma
- Poecilomyrma
- Pristomyrmex
- Proatta
- †Proleptothorax
- Propodilobus
- Recurvidris
- Rhopalomastix
- Romblonella
- Rostromyrmex
- Rotastruma
- Royidris
- Secostruma
- Stereomyrmex
- †Stigmomyrmex
- †Stiphromyrmex
- Strongylognathus
- Temnothorax
- Terataner
- Tetheamyrma
- Tetramorium
- †Thanacomyrmex
- Trichomyrmex
- Vitsika
- Vollenhovia
- Vombisidris
- Xenomyrmex
- All taxa
- alpina
- amamiana
- americana
- andalas
- arcuata
- asiatica
- aspera
- asthena
- atlantis
- australis
- bandarensis
- bawai
- boltoni
- breviata
- brevicornis
- butteli
- cacabau
- camellia
- celebensis
- cooperi
- curtisi
- curvispina
- dasynota
- davisoni
- dechai
- difficulta
- dolichothrix
- elegans
- eowilsoni
- eruga
- flava
- gaoligongensis
- glabra
- gopa
- gracilis
- graminicola
- grandis
- guangxiensis
- gymnocephala
- hamula
- harrisoni
- inaequala
- inflata
- insulana
- inthanonensis
- itoi
- kaigong
- lambirensis
- lombokensis
- longiseta
- macrops
- magnificens
- mahuana
- mandibularis
- maryatiae
- melonii
- modesta
- monticola
- muluensis
- narendra
- nesaea
- nigra
- nipponica
- nitidiuscula
- nomurai
- opaciventris
- padangensis
- parallela
- pauca
- pierceae
- pilicornis
- polita
- poringensis
- pumila
- punctata
- raviwonghei
- reticulata
- rugosa
- ryukyuensis
- sabahna
- salmahae
- sauteri
- semipolita
- sicula
- silvalaeva
- silvampla
- silvangula
- silvarugosa
- silvatransversa
- sinensis
- spinosa
- striata
- strigis
- sulawesiana
- sulcata
- sundanica
- taiwana
- transversa
- tridentata
- undulata
- urbanii
- vidyae
- vieti
- wesselensis
- yamanei