Myrmoxenus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus was synonymized under Temnothorax by Ward et al. (2015),[3] but the change was not accepted by Heinze et al. (2015) due to insufficient available data.[4]

Myrmoxenus
Myrmoxenus ravouxi worker
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Myrmoxenus

Ruzsky, 1902
Type species
Myrmoxenus gordiagini
Diversity[1]
12 species
Synonyms

Epimyrma Emery, 1915
Myrmetaerus Soudek, 1925

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  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Myrmoxenus". AntCat. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Genus: Myrmoxenus". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. ^ Ward, Philip S.; Brady, Sean G.; Fisher, Brian L.; Schultz, Ted R. (July 2014). "The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Systematic Entomology. 40 (1): 61–81. doi:10.1111/syen.12090. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 83986771.
  4. ^ Heinze, Jürgen; Buschinger, Alfred; Poettinger, Theo; Suefuji, Masaki (2015). "Multiple Convergent Origins of Workerlessness and Inbreeding in the Socially Parasitic Ant Genus Myrmoxenus". PLOS ONE. 10 (7): e0131023. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1031023H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131023. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4519230. PMID 26221735.

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