| Zasphinctus | |
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| Zasphinctus imbecilis worker from Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Zasphinctus Wheeler, 1918 |
| Type species | |
| Sphinctomyrmex stali Forel, 1900
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 23 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Eusphinctus (Zasphinctus) Wheeler, 1918 | |
Zasphinctus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae. The genus is a pantropical and distinctive group, originally described by Wheeler (1918) based on "Sphinctomyrmex" turneri collected in Queensland, Australia.[1] Zasphinctus was first described as a subgenus of "Eusphinctus", and then synonymized into Sphinctomyrmex, to later be raised to full genus status by Borowiec (2016),[1][2] who included approximately 20 species in the new genus circumscription.[3]
The species Zasphinctus sarowiwai was named in honor of Nigerian peace activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in 2017.[4]
Species
[edit]- Zasphinctus asper (Brown, 1975)
- Zasphinctus caledonicus (Wilson, 1957)
- Zasphinctus cedaris (Forel, 1915)
- Zasphinctus chariensis (Santschi, 1915)
- Zasphinctus clarus (Forel, 1893)
- Zasphinctus cribratus (Emery, 1897)
- Zasphinctus duchaussoyi (Andre, 1905)
- Zasphinctus emeryi (Forel, 1893)
- Zasphinctus froggatti (Forel, 1900)
- Zasphinctus imbecilis (Forel, 1907)
- Zasphinctus marcoyi (Feitosa et al. 2011)
- Zasphinctus mjobergi (Forel, 1915)
- Zasphinctus myops (Forel, 1895)
- Zasphinctus nigricans (Clark, 1926)
- Zasphinctus obamai Hita Garcia, 2017
- Zasphinctus occidentalis ((Clark, 1923)
- Zasphinctus rufiventris (Santschi, 1915)
- Zasphinctus sarowiwai Hita Garcia, 2017
- Zasphinctus septtrionalis (Crawley, 1925)
- Zasphinctus siamensis (Jaitrong, 2016)
- Zasphinctus steinheili (Forel, 1900)
- Zasphinctus trux (Brown, 1975)
- Zasphinctus turneri (Forel, 1900)
- Zasphinctus wilsoni Hita Garcia, 2017
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Bolton, B. (2021). "Zasphinctus". AntCat. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ Borowiec, M. (2016). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (608): 1–280. Bibcode:2016ZooK..608....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427. PMC 4982377. PMID 27559303.
- ^ "Genus: Zasphinctus". antweb.org. AntWeb. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ Garcia, F. H.; Fischer, G.; Liu, C.; Audisio, T. L.; Economo, E. P. (August 2017). "Next-generation morphological character discovery and evaluation: an X-ray micro-CT enhanced revision of the ant genus Zasphinctus Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Dorylinae) in the Afrotropics". ZooKeys (693): 33–93. Bibcode:2017ZooK..693...33H. doi:10.3897/zookeys.693.13012. PMC 5777420. PMID 29362522.
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