Gesomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.[1] The genus contains six extant species, known from the Indomalayan realm,[2] and nine fossil species.[3] Of the extant species, four are known only from workers (G. chaperi, G. howardi, G. kalshoveni and G. spatulatus) and two only from females (G. luzonensis and G. tobiasi).[4] The extinct species "G. expectans" and "Gesomyrmex miegi", formerly placed in the genus, were excluded by Dlussky et al.., 2009.
| Gesomyrmex Temporal range:
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| Gesomyrmex howardi worker from China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Gesomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Gesomyrmex Mayr, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| †Gesomyrmex hoernesi Mayr, 1868
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| Synonyms | |
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Dimorphomyrmex André, 1892 | |
The living species are arboreal typically building nests in the twigs of trees.[3]
Species edit
- †Gesomyrmex bremii (Heer, 1849)
- †Gesomyrmex breviceps Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2009
- Gesomyrmex chaperi André, 1892
- †Gesomyrmex curiosus Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2009
- †Gesomyrmex flavescens Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2009
- †Gesomyrmex germanicus Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2009
- †Gesomyrmex hoernesi Mayr, 1868
- Gesomyrmex howardi Wheeler, 1921
- †Gesomyrmex incertus Dlussky, Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015
- Gesomyrmex kalshoveni Wheeler, 1929
- Gesomyrmex luzonensis (Wheeler, 1916)
- †Gesomyrmex macrops Dlussky, Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015
- †Gesomyrmex magnus Dlussky, Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015
- †Gesomyrmex pulcher Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2009
- Gesomyrmex spatulatus Cole, 1949
- Gesomyrmex tobiasi Dubovikov, 2004
References edit
- ^ "Genus: Gesomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Gesomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ a b Dlussky, G.M.; Rasnitsyn, A.P.; Perfilieva, K.S. (2015). "The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East)" (PDF). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 11 (1): 131–152. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2015-11-1-131-152.
- ^ Dubovikov, D. A. (2004). "A new species of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr, 1868 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Vietnam". Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva. 75 (1): 219–221.
External links edit
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