''Harpagoxenus'' is a
genus
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of
ant
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s in the
subfamily Myrmicinae.
Found in the
Palaearctic
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The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
and
Nearctic ecozones of the world, ''Harpagoxenus'' was first established as ''Tomognathus'' by
Mayr
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* Andrea Mayr (born 1979), Austrian female long-distance runner
* Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), German American evolutionary biologist
* Georg Mayr (1564–1623), Bavarian Jesuit pries ...
(1861) to house the species ''Myrmica sublaevis'' (now ''
Harpagoxenus sublaevis''). However, the name had already been used (
homonym
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) for a genus of fish, and was
replaced with its current name by
Forel (1893).
Species
* ''
Harpagoxenus canadensis''
Smith, 1939
* ''
Harpagoxenus sublaevis''
(Nylander, 1849)
* ''
Harpagoxenus zaisanicus''
Pisarski, 1963
References
External links
*
Myrmicinae
Ant genera
Taxa named by Auguste Forel
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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