Perissomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] It is known from the Neotropical and Oriental realms.[3]
| Perissomyrmex | |
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| Perissomyrmex snyderi worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Perissomyrmex Smith, 1947 |
| Type species | |
| Perissomyrmex snyderi Smith, 1947
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 6 species | |
The genus was first described in 1947 from two workers discovered in Hoboken plant quarantine in New Jersey, United States. The ants were found in the root of a Begonia plant that had been shipped from Guatemala.[4] Due to the genus' close affinities to the exclusively Old World genus Pristomyrmex, it was thought that the ants had been brought to the US via Guatemala from the Oriental or the Indo-Australian regions. However, with the later rediscovery of Perissomyrmex in Central America, the disjunct distribution could be confirmed.[3]
Species
edit- Perissomyrmex bidentatus Zhou & Huang, 2006
- Perissomyrmex fissus Xu & Wang, 2004
- Perissomyrmex guizhouensis Zhou & Huang, 2006
- Perissomyrmex medogensis Xu & Zhang, 2012
- Perissomyrmex monticola Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1993
- Perissomyrmex snyderi Smith, 1947
References
edit- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Perissomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- ^ "Genus: Perissomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ a b Ogata, K.; Okido, H. (2007). "Revision of the ant genus Perissomyrmex with notes on the phylogeny of the tribe Myrmecinini". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 80: 352–369.
- ^ Zhou, S.-Y.; Huang, J.-H. (2006). "Two new species of the ant genus Perissomyrmex Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China". Entomological News. 117 (2): 189–196. doi:10.3157/0013-872x(2006)117[189:tnsota]2.0.co;2. S2CID 86175860.
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