Kalathomyrmex

Kalathomyrmex
Kalathomyrmex emeryi worker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Kalathomyrmex
Klingenberg, C. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2009
Species:
K. emeryi
Binomial name
Kalathomyrmex emeryi
(Forel, 1907)
Synonyms

Myrmicocrypta emeryi Forel (type species of Kalathomyrmex)

Kalathomyrmex is a genus of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Kalathomyrmex emeryi.[1] First described as Myrmicocrypta emeryi by Forel in 1907, the species was most recently moved to its current genus by Klingenberg and Brandao in 2009.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Genus: Kalathomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. ^ Klingenberg, C. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2009, Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini)., Zootaxa (2052), pp. 1-31: 21-22


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