Melissotarsus Emery, 1877 valid masculine
Melissotarsus Emery, 1877c: 378 Type-species: Melissotarsus beccarii, by monotypy.
Genus Melissotarsus catalogues

Dalla Torre, 1893: 74; Emery, 1922c: 119; Wheeler, 1922: 823, 1021 (Afrotropical, Malagasy); Bolton, 1995b: 250; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 312 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).

Genus Melissotarsus references

Arnold, 1916: 188 (diagnosis); Emery, 1922c: 119 (diagnosis); Bolton, 1982: 333 (diagnosis, Afrotropical species revision, key); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Fisher & Robertson, 1999: 78 (silk production by workers); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 311 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 209 (brief male diagnosis); Khalife et al., 2018: 1 (skeletomuscular adaptations); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 336 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).

Citations

Extant: 4 valid species (3 synonyms), 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym)

Fossil: 1 valid species