Melissotarsus

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: Melissotarsini
Genus: Melissotarsus
Species: M. beccarii – M. emeryi – M. insularis – M. weissi

Name

Melissotarsus Emery, 1877: 378

Type species: Melissotarsus Beccarii Emery, by monotypy.

References

• Emery, C. 1877: Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte prima. Formiche provenienti dall Viaggio dei signori Antinori, Beccari e Issel nel Mar Rosso e nel paese dei Bogos. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova), 9: 363-381.
• Dalla Torre. 1893: Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VII: Formicidae (Heterogyna). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, Lipsiae. 289 pp.
• Wheeler. 1922: A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 45: 711-1004.
• Collingwood. 1985: Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7: 230-302.
• Bolton, B. 2003: Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 71: 1-370.
• Fisher, B.L. & H.G. Robertson 1999: Silk production by adult workers of the ant Melissotarsus emeryi (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in South African fynbos. Insectes Sociaux, 46(1): 78-83.