Kalathomyrmex
| Kalathomyrmex | |
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| Kalathomyrmex emeryi worker | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Family: | Formicidae
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| Subfamily: | |
| Tribe: | Attini
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| Genus: | Kalathomyrmex Klingenberg, C. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2009
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| Species: | K. emeryi (Forel, 1907)
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| Binomial name | |
| Kalathomyrmex emeryi | |
| Type species | |
| Myrmicocrypta emeryi | |
Kalathomyrmex is a genus of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Kalathomyrmex emeryi.[1] First described as Myrmicocrypta emeryi by Forel in 1907, the species was most recently moved to its current genus by Klingenberg and Brandao in 2009.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Genus: Kalathomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Klingenberg, C. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2009, Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini)., Zootaxa (2052), pp. 1-31: 21-22
External links[]
Media related to Kalathomyrmex at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Myrmicinae
- Monotypic ant genera
- Myrmicinae stubs