Genus Ectomomyrmex Mayr, 1867

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• Ectomomyrmex Mayr, G.L. 1867. Adnotationes in Monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10: 33-117 [83 pl. 2] [redefined in Brown, W.L. jr 1963. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora 190: 1–10 [30 Sept. 1963]].

  Type species:

   Ectomomyrmex javanus Mayr, 1867 by subsequent designation, see Bingham, C.T. 1903. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. Ants and cuckoo-wasps. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 2 507 pp. 1 pl. [85].

  Secondary source:

   Brown, W.L. jr 1963. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 190: 1-10 [30 Sept. 1963].
• Ectomyrmex Donisthorpe, H. 1943. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 10: 617-688, 721-737 [641] [subsequent misspelling; incorrect subsequent spelling of Ectomomyrmex].

Introduction

Member of the Ponera genus group (Schmidt & Shattuck 2014).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of Ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817(1): 1-242

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