Genus Onychomyrmex Emery, 1895

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• Onychomyrmex Emery, C. 1895. Descriptions de quelques fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 39: 345-358 [349] [redefined in Brown, W.L. jr 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143–230].

  Type species:

   Onychomyrmex hedleyi Emery, 1895 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Brown, W.L. jr 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 122: 143-230.
• Lithomyrmex Clark, J. 1928. Australian Formicidae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 14: 29-41 pl. l [24 April 1928] [30].

  Type species:

   Lithomyrmex glauerti Clark, 1928 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 41(3): 683-693

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

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