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]

Kalathomyrmex
Kalathomyrmex emeryi worker
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Kalathomyrmex

Klingenberg, C. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2009
Species:
K. emeryi

(Forel, 1907)
Binomial name
Kalathomyrmex emeryi
Type species
Myrmicocrypta emeryi

References

  1. "Genus: Kalathomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. 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


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