Acanthognathus

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Acanthognathus
Acanthognathus teledectus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Dacetini
Genus: Acanthognathus
Mayr, 1887[1]
Type species
Acanthognathus ocellatus
Species

7, see text

Acanthognathus is a genus of ants that are found in tropical Central and South America.[2] They are reddish in colour and have long trap-jaws that can be compared to those of Odontomachus. These predatory ants live in small colonies that typically consist of less than 30 adults.[2]

Mistakenly, the name Acanthognathus was re-used by German ichthyologist G. Duncker in 1912 for a genus of syngnathid fish,[3] but that is invalid as it is a junior homonym.[4] These are now placed in either Dunckerocampus or Doryrhamphus, as the former sometimes is considered a subgenus of the latter.[5][6] To further confuse, a genus of Nemesiid spiders, Acanthogonatus, is frequently misspelled Acanthognathus.

Species

  • Acanthognathus brevicornis M. R. Smith, 1944
  • Acanthognathus laevigatus Galvis & Fernández, 2009[7]
  • Acanthognathus lentus Mann, 1922
  • Acanthognathus ocellatus Mayr, 1887
  • †Acanthognathus poinari Baroni Urbani, 1994 – fossil.
  • Acanthognathus rudis Brown & Kempf, 1969
  • Acanthognathus stipulosus Brown & Kempf, 1969
  • Acanthognathus teledectus Brown & Kempf, 1969

References

  1. ↑ Mayr, G. (1887). Südamerikanische Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 37: 511-632.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brown, W. L., Jr., & W. W. Kempf (1969). A Revision of the Neotropical Dacetine Ant Genus Acanthognathus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Psyche 76(2): 87-109.
  3. ↑ Duncker, G. (1912). Die Gattungen der Syngnathidae. Mitteilungen Naturhist. Museum Hamburg 29: 219-240.
  4. ↑ Ride, W.D.L, H.G. Cogger, C. Dupuis, O. Kraus, A. Minelli, F. C. Thompson & P.K. Tubbs, eds. (1999). International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. ISBN 0-85301-006-4
  5. ↑ Whitley, G. P. (1933). Studies in ichthyology. No. 7. Records of the Australian Museum v. 19 (1): 60-112, Pls. 11-15.
  6. ↑ Dawson, C. E. (1985). Indo-Pacific pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). Gulf Coast Research Lab., Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Indo-Pacific pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). i-vi + 1-230.
  7. ↑ Galvis, J. P.; Fernández, F. (2009). "Ants of Colombia X. Acanthognathus with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Revista Colombiana de Entomología 35: 245–249. 
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