Zasphinctus
Appearance
Zasphinctus | |
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Zasphinctus imbecilis worker from Australia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
Genus: | Zasphinctus Wheeler, 1918 |
Type species | |
Sphinctomyrmex stali Forel, 1900
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Diversity[1] | |
23 species | |
Synonyms | |
Eusphinctus (Zasphinctus) Wheeler, 1918 |
Zasphinctus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae. The genus is a pantropical and distinctive group, originally described by Wheeler (1918) based on "Sphinctomyrmex" turneri collected in Queensland, Australia.[1] Zasphinctus was first described as a subgenus of "Eusphinctus", and then synonymized into Sphinctomyrmex, to later be raised to full genus status by Borowiec (2016),[1][2] who included approximately 20 species in the new genus circumscription.[3]
Species
- Zasphinctus asper (Brown, 1975)
- Zasphinctus caledonicus (Wilson, 1957)
- Zasphinctus cedaris (Forel, 1915)
- Zasphinctus chariensis (Santschi, 1915)
- Zasphinctus clarus (Forel, 1893)
- Zasphinctus cribratus (Emery, 1897)
- Zasphinctus duchaussoyi (Andre, 1905)
- Zasphinctus emeryi (Forel, 1893)
- Zasphinctus froggatti (Forel, 1900)
- Zasphinctus imbecilis (Forel, 1907)
- Zasphinctus marcoyi (Feitosa et al. 2011)
- Zasphinctus mjobergi (Forel, 1915)
- Zasphinctus myops (Forel, 1895)
- Zasphinctus nigricans (Clark, 1926)
- Zasphinctus obamai Hita Garcia, 2017
- Zasphinctus occidentalis ((Clark, 1923)
- Zasphinctus rufiventris (Santschi, 1915)
- Zasphinctus sarowiwai Hita Garcia, 2017
- Zasphinctus septtrionalis (Crawley, 1925)
- Zasphinctus siamensis (Jaitrong, 2016)
- Zasphinctus steinheili (Forel, 1900)
- Zasphinctus trux (Brown, 1975)
- Zasphinctus turneri (Forel, 1900)
- Zasphinctus wilsoni Hita Garcia, 2017
References
- ^ a b c Bolton, B. (2021). "Zasphinctus". AntCat. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ Borowiec, M. (2016). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (608): 1–280. doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427. PMC 4982377. PMID 27559303.
- ^ "Genus: Zasphinctus". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 3 June 2021.