Afroxyidris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea

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

Familia: Formicidae
Genus: Afroxyidris
Species: A. crigensis

Name

Afroxyidris Belshaw & Bolton, 1994: 631

• Type species: Afroxyidris crigensis, now Carebara crigensis.

Synonymy

• Status:   invalid   [synonym of Carebara Westwood, 1840: 86; synonym of Carebara: Fernández, 2004: 194]

References

Primary references

• Belshaw, R. & Bolton, B. 1994. A new myrmicine ant genus from cocoa leaf litter in Ghana (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of natural history 28: 631-634. [page 631, Afroxyidris in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetonini]
• Fernández, F. 2004. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 [page 194, Aftroxyidris as junior synonym of Carebara]