Mystrium
Roger, 1862
valid
neuter
- Mystrium in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 715 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 16 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 15 [Ponerinae]; Emery, 1896e: 176 [Ponerinae].
- Mystrium in Amblyoponinae: Forel, 1893b: 162.
- Mystrium in Pachycondylinae, Amblyoponini: Ashmead, 1905c: 283.
- Mystrium in Ponerinae, Amblyoponini: Emery, 1895l: 766; Emery, 1901b: 34; Wheeler, 1910a: 134; Emery, 1911e: 22; Forel, 1917: 235; Wheeler, 1922: 640; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1973a: 331; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 38.
- Mystrium in Amblyoponinae, Amblyoponini: Bolton, 2003: 42, 155.
- Mystrium as genus: all authors.
Genus Mystrium catalogues
Mayr, 1863a: 436; Roger, 1863b: 20; Dalla Torre, 1893: 15; Emery, 1911e: 22; Wheeler, 1922: 758, 1006 (Afrotropical, Malagasy); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 47 (Australia); Bolton, 1995b: 287; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 332 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).
Genus Mystrium references
Mayr, 1865: 16 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 22 (diagnosis); Menozzi, 1929e: 518 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Brown, 1960a: 169 (review of genus); Bolton, 1973a: 331 (diagnosis); Bolton, 1995a: 1051 (census); Gronenberg et al., 1998: 241 (mandible morphology); Shattuck, 1999: 192 (Australia synopsis); Bihn & Verhaagh, 2007: 11 (Indo-Australia species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 16 (male diagnosis); Eguchi et al., 2014: 24 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2014: 1 (Madagascar species revision), 9 (female and male diagnosis), 16 (Madagascar species key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 331 (diagnosis); Ward & Fisher, 2016: 689 (phylogeny); Cantone, 2017: 102 (brief male diagnosis); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 299 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).
Citations
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
- Bihn, J. H.; Verhaagh, M. 2007. A review of the genus Mystrium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Australian region. Zootaxa 1642:1-12. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1973a. The ant genera of West Africa: a synonymic synopsis with keys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 27:317-368. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230. PDF
- Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Eguchi, K.; Viet, B. T.; Yamane, S. 2014. Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part II—Cerapachyinae, Aenictinae, Dorylinae, Leptanillinae, Amblyoponinae, Ponerinae, Ectatomminae and Proceratiinae. Zootaxa 3860 (1):1-46. 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.1.1 PDF
- Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
- Emery, C. 1896e. Clef analytique des genres de la famille des Formicides, pour la détermination des neutres. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 40:172-189. PDF
- Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. PDF
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
- Fisher, B. L.; Bolton, B. 2016. Ants of the world. Ants of Africa and Madagascar. A guide to the genera. Berkeley: University of California Press, ix + 503 pp.
- Forel, A. 1893b. Sur la classification de la famille des Formicides, avec remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 37:161-167. PDF
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
- Gronenberg, W.; Hölldobler, B.; Alpert, G. D. 1998. Jaws that snap: control of mandible movements in the ant Mystrium. Journal of Insect Physiology 44:241-253. PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. PDF
- Menozzi, C. 1929e. Revisione delle formiche del genere Mystrium Roger. Zoologischer Anzeiger 82:518-536. PDF
- Ramamonjisoa, M. M.; Rasoamanana, N.; Fisher, B. L. 2024. Male-based key to the subfamilies and genera of Malagasy ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1213:289-359. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1213.120531 PDF
- Roger, J. 1862a. Einige neue exotische Ameisen-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 6:233-254. PDF
- Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
- Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- Ward, P. S.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 41:683-693. 10.1111/syen.12186 PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
- Yoshimura, M.; Fisher, B. L. 2012a. A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE 7 (3):e33325. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 PDF
- Yoshimura, M.; Fisher, B. L. 2014. A revision of the ant genus Mystrium in the Malagasy region with description of six new species and remarks on Amblyopone and Stigmatomma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae). ZooKeys 394:1-99. PDF
Extant: 14 valid species (3 synonyms), 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym)
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae