Biology:Myrmoxenus
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Short description: Genus of ants
| Myrmoxenus | |
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| Myrmoxenus ravouxi worker | |
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| Tribe: | Formicoxenini
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| Genus: | Myrmoxenus Ruzsky, 1902
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| Myrmoxenus gordiagini | |
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| 12 species | |
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Epimyrma Emery, 1915 | |
Myrmoxenus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus was synonymized under Temnothorax by Ward et al. (2015),[3] but the change was not accepted by Heinze et al. (2015) due to insufficient available data.[4]
Species
- Myrmoxenus adlerzi (Douwes, Jessen & Buschinger, 1988)
- Myrmoxenus africana (Bernard, 1948)
- Myrmoxenus algeriana (Cagniant, 1968)
- Myrmoxenus bernardi (Espadaler, 1982)
- Myrmoxenus birgitae (Schulz, 1994)
- Myrmoxenus corsica (Emery, 1895)
- Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, 1902
- Myrmoxenus kraussei (Emery, 1915)
- Myrmoxenus ravouxi (André, 1896) Ravoux's slavemaker ant
- Myrmoxenus stumperi (Kutter, 1950)
- Myrmoxenus tamarae (Arnol'di, 1968)
- Myrmoxenus zaleskyi (Sadil, 1953)
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Myrmoxenus". AntCat. http://antcat.org/catalog/429932.
- ↑ "Genus: Myrmoxenus". AntWeb. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Myrmoxenus&rank=genus&project=allantwebants.
- ↑ Ward, Philip S.; Brady, Sean G.; Fisher, Brian L.; Schultz, Ted R. (July 2014). "The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Systematic Entomology 40 (1): 61–81. doi:10.1111/syen.12090. ISSN 1365-3113. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2tc8r8w8.
- ↑ Heinze, Jürgen; Buschinger, Alfred; Poettinger, Theo; Suefuji, Masaki (2015). "Multiple Convergent Origins of Workerlessness and Inbreeding in the Socially Parasitic Ant Genus Myrmoxenus". PLOS ONE 10 (7): e0131023. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131023. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 26221735. Bibcode: 2015PLoSO..1031023H.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1375752 entry
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