Xenomyrmex

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Myrmicinae
Tribus: Crematogastrini
Genus: Xenomyrmex
Species: X. floridanus – X. panamanus – X. stollii
Name

Xenomyrmex Forel, 1885:369

Type species: Xenomyrmex Stollii Forel, by monotypy.
Synonyms

Myrmecinella Wheeler

X. stollii worker from Brazil

References

Forel, A. 1885: Études myrmécologiques en 1884; avec une description des organes sensoriels des antennes. Bulletin de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, 20: 316–380.
Creighton. 1950: The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College, 104: 1–585.
Bolton, B. 2003: Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 71: 1–370.

Xenomyrmex is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus is known from Florida (United States), the West Indies, and from Mexico to at least Panama. They nest in cavities of living or dead plants.[3]
Species

Xenomyrmex floridanus Emery, 1895
Xenomyrmex panamanus (Wheeler, 1922)
Xenomyrmex stollii Forel, 1885

References

Bolton, B. (2014). "Xenomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
"Genus: Xenomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
Ettershank, G. (1966). "A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 14: 73–171. doi:10.1071/zo9660073.