Harpagoxenus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Cladus: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Cladus: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Myrmicinae
Tribus: Formicoxenini
Genus: Harpagoxenus
Species: H. canadensis – H. sublaevis – H. zaisanicus

Name

Harpagoxenus Forel, 1893: 167

Type species: Myrmica sublaevis Nylander, 1849

Synonyms

• Tomognathus Mayr, 1861: 56.

Type-species: Myrmica sublaevis, by monotypy.

[Junior homonym of Tomognathus Agassiz, 1850: 376 (Pisces).]

• Harpagoxenus Forel, 1893: 167. Replacement name for Tomognathus Mayr, 1861: 56.

References

• Forel. 1893: Sur la classification de la famille des formicides, avec remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 37: 161-167.

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• Creighton. 1950: The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College, 104: 1-585.
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• Bourke, A.F.G. 1988: Dominance orders, worker reproduction, and queen-worker conflict in the slave-making ant Harpagoxenus sublaevis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 23(5): 323-333.
• Xu, Z.-H. 2012: A newly recorded genus and species, Harpagoxenus sublaevis, from China with a key to the known species of Harpagoxenus of the world (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Sociobiology, 59, 19-25.