Myrmelachistini

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Myrmelachistini
File:Brachymyrmex depilis P1550885a.jpg
Brachymyrmex depilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Myrmelachistini

Myrmelachistini is a tribe of ants in the family Formicidae. There are at least 2 genera and 50 described species in Myrmelachistini.[1][2][3][4] In 2016, the tribe Myrmelachistini was resurrected and the genera Brachymyrmex and Myrmelachista were transferred to it from the tribe Plagiolepidini.[5][6][7]

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Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Genera

References

  1. "Myrmelachistini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  2. "Myrmelachistini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  3. "Myrmelachistini Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  4. "AntWeb". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  5. Ward, Philip S.; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Fisher, Brian L. (2016). "A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae(Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex". Zootaxa. 4072 (3). Magnolia Press: 343–57. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4. PMID 27395929.
  6. Christopher M. Wilson; Autumn Smith-Herron (2016). "Morphology of the male genitalia of Brachymyrmex and their implications in the Formicinae phylogeny" (PDF). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 50. Pensoft Publishers: 81–95. doi:10.3897/JHR.50.8697. ISSN 1070-9428. S2CID 6859766.
  7. "AntWeb". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-03-10.

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