''Kalathomyrmex'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of ...
in the
subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single
species
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''Kalathomyrmex emeryi''.
First described as ''
Myrmicocrypta emeryi'' by Forel in 1907, the species was most recently moved to its current genus by Klingenberg and Brandao in 2009.
[Klingenberg, C. & Brandao, C. R. F., 2009, Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini)., Zootaxa (2052), pp. 1-31: 21-22]
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Myrmicinae
Monotypic ant genera
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