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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Thaumatomyrmex
›
Thaumatomyrmex contumax
Thaumatomyrmex
contumax
Kempf, 1975
valid
Thaumatomyrmex contumax
Kempf, 1975b
: 108, figs. 13, 22, 33 (w.) BRAZIL (Pernambuco). Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Brazil: Pernambuco, Araripina, 4.i.1973 (
R. Montenegro
). Type-depository:
MZSP
.
Status as species:
Brandão, 1991
: 381;
Brandão
et al.
, 1991
: 336;
Bolton, 1995b
: 420;
Jahyny
et al.
, 2008
: 332;
Feitosa, 2015c
: 99.
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brandão, C. R. F.
1991.
Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412.
PDF
Brandão, C. R. F.
;
Diniz, J. L. M.
;
Tomotake, E. M.
1991.
Thaumatomyrmex
strips millipedes for prey: a novel predatory behaviour in ants, and the first case of sympatry in the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Insectes Sociaux 38:335-344.
PDF
Feitosa, R. M.
2015c.
Lista das formigas poneromorfas do Brasil.
Pp. 95-102 in:
Delabie, J. H. C.
;
Feitosa, R. M.
;
Serrão, J. E.
;
Mariano, C. S. F.
;
Majer, J. D.
(eds.) 2015.
As formigas poneromorfas do Brasil.
Ilhéus-Bahia: Editora da UESC, 477 pp.
PDF
Jahyny, B.
;
Lacau, S.
;
Delabie, J. H. C.
;
Fresneau, D.
2008.
Le genre
Thaumatomyrmex
Mayr 1887, cryptique et prédateur spécialiste de Diplopoda Penicillata.
Pp. 329-346 in:
Jiménez, E.
;
Fernández, F.
;
Arias, T.M.
;
Lozano-Zambrano, F. H.
(eds.) 2008.
Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia.
Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp.
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Kempf, W. W.
1975b.
A revision of the Neotropical ponerine ant genus
Thaumatomyrmex
Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Studia Entomologica 18:95-126.
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synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
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