1390 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Spelaeomyrmex Wheeler, 1922. Amer. Mus. Novitates 45:9. 



Type-species: Spelaeomyrmex urichi Wheeler. Monotypic. 

 Oligom,yrmex subg. Hendecatella Wheeler, 1927. Lab. Zool. Gen. e Agr. Portici, Bol. 20:93. 



Type-species: OUgomyrmex (Hendecatella) capreolus Wheeler. Monotypic. 

 Solenopsis subg. Solenops Karawajew, 1930. Zool. Anz. 92:207. Preocc. by Dufour, 1820. 



Type-species: Solenopsis (Solenops) weyeri Karawajew. Monotypic. 

 Sporocleptes Arnold, 1948. Natl. Mus. South. Rhodesia, Occas. Papers 2 (14): 219. 



Type-species: Sporocleptes nicotiana Arnold. Monotypic. 

 Solenopsis subg. Crateropsis Patrizi, 1948. 1st. Ent. Univ. Bologna, Bol. 17:174. 



Type-sp»ecies: Solenopsis (Crateropsis) elmenteitae Patrizi. Monotypic. 

 Nimbamyrma Bernard, 1953. Mem. Inst. Franc. Afr. Noire 19, fasc. 1, p. 240. Questionable 

 syn. 



Type-species: Nimbamyrma villiersi Bernard. Monotypic. 



A large genus in tropical Africa and Asia, with fewer species in the neotropics and only one 

 species reaching the United States. Colonies are small and collections are usually made from 

 under bark of logs, in rotten wood, or leaf litter. Most species may be lestobiotic in the nests of 

 other ants and termites. 



Taxonomy: Wilson, 1962. Psyche 69:62-72. — Ettershank, 1966. Austral. Jour. Zool. 14:119-124 

 (generic syn. and list of world species). — Wheeler and Wheeler, 1953. Psyche 60:141 

 (larvae). 



longii (Wheeler). Okla. (Ft. Sill), Tex. (Denton). Ecology: May be lestobiotic. 

 Erebomyrma longii Wheeler, 1903. Biol. Bui. 4:140. 5, 9, S. 



Taxonomy: Mann, 1926. Psyche 33:104. —Wheeler, 1936. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., Proc. 

 71:197. 



Biology: Wheeler, 1908. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 24:423. —Wheeler, 1910. Ants, pp. 113, 

 140, 152, 158-159, 427-428. 



Tribe LEPTOTHORACINI 



Genus MACROMISCHA Roger 



Macromischa Roger, 1863. Berlin. Ent. Ztschr. 7:184. 



Type-species: Macromischa purpurata Roger. Desig. by Wheeler, 1911. 

 Macromischa subg. Croesomyrmex Mann, 1920. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 42:408. 



Type-sjjecies: Macromischa (Croesomyrmex) wheeleri Mann. Orig. desig. 

 Macromischa subg. Antillaemyrmex Mann, 1920. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 42:408. 



Type-species: Macromischa (Antillaemyrmex) terricola Mann. Orig. desig. 



A rather large genus in the neotropics with only three species reaching the United States. 



Revision: Wheeler, 1908. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 24:138-142. —Mann, 1920. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Bui. 42:407^24. —Wheeler, 1931. Harvard Univ., Mus. Comp. Zool., Bui. 72:3-34. 

 —Wheeler, 1937. Harvard Univ., Mus. Comp. Zool., Bui. 81:441, 449-458, 463^65. —Smith, 

 1939. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ami. 32:502-509. 



Taxonomy: Brown, 1973. In Meggers, et al.. Tropical Forest Ecosystems in Afr. and S. 

 Amer., p. 181 (listed as a provisional syn. of Leptothorax). 

 floridana (Wheeler). Fla. (Paradise Key, Dade Co.). Ecology: Nest of the types was found in a 

 hollow branch of a small tree. 

 Antillaemyrmex floridanus Wheeler, 1931. Harvard Univ., Mus. Comp. Zool., Bui. 72:27. 

 5. 



Biology: Wheeler, 1932. N. Y. Ent. Soc., Jour. 40:11. 

 polita Smith. Ariz. Ecology: One nest was found under the bark of a tree, but most specimens 

 have been taken on the groimd. 

 Macromischa polita Smith, 1939. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 32:503, 506. 3 . 

 subditiva Wheeler. La., Tex.; Mexico. Ecology: Nests have been found under willow bark, and 

 from dead hollow branches lying on the ground. 

 Macromischa subditiva Wheeler, 1903. Psyche 10:99. 9 . 



