Kalathomyrmex
| Kalathomyrmex | |
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| Kalathomyrmex emeryi worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Kalathomyrmex Klingenberg, C. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2009 |
| Species: | K. emeryi
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| Binomial name | |
| Kalathomyrmex emeryi (Forel, 1907)
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| Synonyms | |
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Myrmicocrypta emeryi Forel (type species of Kalathomyrmex) | |
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
[edit]- ^ "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
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