Plectroctena Smith, 1858 valid feminine
Plectroctena Smith, 1858a: 101 Type-species: Plectroctena mandibularis, by monotypy.
Junior synonyms
Genus Plectroctena catalogues

Mayr, 1863a: 442; Roger, 1863b: 19; Dalla Torre, 1893: 31; Emery, 1911e: 94; Wheeler, 1922: 783, 785, 786 (Plectroctena, Myopias, Cacopone); Bolton, 1995b: 337; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 177 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 379 (checklist).

Genus Plectroctena references

Mayr, 1865: 12 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 94 (diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 84 (diagnosis, South Africa species); Wheeler, 1922: 85 (diagnosis); Santschi, 1924a: 172 (all species revision, key); Bolton, 1973a: 339 (diagnosis); Bolton, 1974c: 309 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Bolton & Brown, 2002: 11 (all species key); Bolton, 2003: 169 (synopsis); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 174 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 377 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 271 (brief male diagnosis).

Citations

Extant: 16 valid species

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