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]
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| Myrmoxenus ravouxi worker | |
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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 | |
Species
edit- 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
edit- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Myrmoxenus". AntCat. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ^ "Genus: Myrmoxenus". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ 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. S2CID 83986771.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1031023H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131023. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4519230. PMID 26221735.
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