Published April 29, 2011 | Version v1
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Anonychomyrma constricta

Description

Anonychomyrma constricta (Mayr)

Hypoclinea constricta Mayr, 1868: 60.

Types. Holotype worker from Baltic amber (Eocene).

Comments. This species was transferred from Hypoclinea to Bothriomyrmex by Dalla Torre (1893), then to Iridomyrmex by Wheeler (1915b) and finally to Anonychomyrma by Shattuck (1992a), this final treatment being accepted by Dlussky (1997). It should be noted, however, that extant species of Anonychomyrma are restricted to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands (Shattuck, 1992a, 1992b; Ward et al., 2010) while this and other fossil species currently placed in Anonychomyrma are well outside this geographic area. The possibility that these species would be better placed in a genus other than Anonychomyrma, probably newly erected specifically for them, cannot be ruled out.

Notes

Published as part of Heterick, Brian E. & Shattuck, Steve, 2011, Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) 2845, pp. 1-174 in Zootaxa 2845 (1) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2845.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5287811

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Mayr
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Anonychomyrma
Species
constricta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anonychomyrma constricta (Mayr, 1868) sec. Heterick & Shattuck, 2011

References

  • Mayr, G. (1868) Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitrage zur Naturkunde Preussens. Koniglichen Physikalisch- Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg, 1, 1 - 102.
  • Dalla Torre, C. G. de (1893) Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7 Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: G. Engelmann, 289 pp.
  • Wheeler, W. M. (1915 b) The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg in Pr., 55 (1914), 1 - 142.
  • Shattuck, S. O. (1992 a) Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrme x Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 31, 13 - 18.
  • Dlussky, G. M. (1997) Genera of ants from Baltic Amber. Paleontological Journal, 31 (6), 616 - 627.
  • Shattuck, S. O. (1992 b) Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology, 21, 1 - 181.
  • Ward, P. S., Brady, S. G., Fisher, B. L., Schultz, T. R. (2010) Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: Effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference. Systematic Biology, 59, 342 - 362.