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Subfamilies         

Cerapachyinae

Dolichoderinae

Ecitoninae

Formicinae

Myrmicinae

poneromorphs

Pseudomyrmecinae  

 

Links

Jack Longino's Ants of Costa Rica

American Museum Social Insects website

William and Emma Mackay Ants of North America site

Gordon and Roy Snelling New World Army Ants

Notes from Underground

 

sF Ecitoninae

 

Named
Species
Estimated
Species
Genus species Author
7 7 Eciton burchellii Westwood 1842
  Eciton dulcium Forel 1912
  Eciton hamatum Fabricius 1782
  Eciton lucanoides Emery 1894
  Eciton mexicanum Roger 1863
  Eciton quadrigulme Haliday 1836
  Eciton vagans Olivier 1792
       
2 2 Labidus coecus Latreille 1802
  Labidus praedator F Smith 1858
       
12 13 Neivamyrmex _tiny_ MEK morphospecies
  Neivamyrmex falicifer Emery 1900
  Neivamyrmex hopei Shuckard 1840
  Neivamyrmex humilis Borgmeier 1939
  Neivamyrmex iridescens Borgmeier 1950
  Neivamyrmex leptognathus Emery 1900
  Neivamyrmex maxilosus Emery 1900
  Neivamyrmex nigrescens Cresson 1872
  Neivamyrmex pilosus F Smith 1858
  Neivamyrmex planidens Borgmeier 1953
  Neivamyrmex postcarinatus Borgmeier 1953
  Neivamyrmex pseudops Forel 1909
  Neivamyrmex spoliator Forel 1899
       
2 2 Nomamyrmex esenbeckii crassicornis F. Smith 1855
  Nomamyrmex hartigii Westwood 1842

Nomenclature

"Named species" represents the current tally of species for which we have reasonable identifications. Since this list is compiled from a number of sources (see home page) for which I have no access to specimens, I have also provided an estimated list of species based on this currently published work.  This "Estimated species" can also translate roughly to "wild-ass guess" without the loss of too much meaning.

 

A word about the species names. All species names and authorities conform to Bolton (1995) supplemented by more recent literature.  The taxa without an official Latin binomial are unpublished. Here is a key:

 

PSW unpublished=Phil Ward (UC Davis)—these are working species codes based on Ward’s study of Pseudomyrmex.

 

JTL Morphospecies=Jack Longino (Evergreen State College)—many of these are species codes from Longino's study of the La Selva fauna.

 

SC / JT / MEK Morphospecies=These represent species that failed to match existing collections at the MCZ. SC=Stefan Cover, curatorial assistant  and JT=John Tobin, both at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and MEK= Mike Kaspari, University of Oklahoma. A fair number of MEK morphospecies are alates.

 

If you have any comments or contributions comments, please contact me

 


 

 

            Author: Mike Kaspari
Updated: 18March2003
                                     

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