This history item belongs to Myrmoxenus Ruzsky, 1902

Its current taxon owner(s) is Myrmoxenus

[Note: Buschinger, 1990b, Bolton, 1994 and Bolton, 1995b give Epimyrma as senior synonym, but Myrmoxenus has priority.] 

[Note: {ref 123387}, {ref 122834} and {ref 122860} give {tax 429933} as senior synonym, but {tax 429932} has priority.]
  • Item type: taxt
  • Created at: 2023-09-07
  • Updated at: 2023-09-07
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Taxa belonging to this history item's protonym
Myrmoxenus Genus Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Temnothorax Mayr, 1861
Other history items belonging to Myrmoxenus
#242435 Myrmoxenus in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Wheeler, 1910a: 139.
#242436 Myrmoxenus in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 245; Wheeler, 1922: 664; Emery, 1924f: 262; subsequent authors.
#242437 Myrmoxenus in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 38; Bolton, 2003: 70, 248.
#242438 Myrmoxenus as senior synonym of Epimyrma: Buschinger, 1990b: 245 (in text) [provisional]; Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 38.
#311465 (selected) [Note: Buschinger, 1990b, Bolton, 1994 and Bolton, 1995b give Epimyrma as senior synonym, but Myrmoxenus has priority.]
#311466 Myrmoxenus as genus: Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 245; Wheeler, 1922: 664; Emery, 1924f: 262; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Seifert, 1996b: 118; Bolton, 2003: 70, 248; Seifert, 2007: 117.
#275370 Myrmoxenus as junior synonym of Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
#311467 [Note: some authors would prefer to retain Myrmoxenus as a paraphyletic genus: Seifert et al., 2016: 237. The compiler of this catalogue emphatically supports monophyly, in agreement with Ward et al., 2016: 489.]