Some changes in ant taxonomy

Recent publications have shifted ants in our fauna to different genera, and this needs to be reflected in the classification scheme at http://bugguide.net/node/view/165, and more broadly in the arrangement of the ant fauna on the guide.

Most recently, in http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4072.3.4, the former subgenus Colobopsis has been elevated to genus out of Camponotus.
This require the latter taxon to be added as a genus under the tribe Camponotini, and the species
within it transferred to Colobopsis with feminine specific epithets, as follows: etiolata, hunteri, impressa, mississippiensis, obliqua.

And late last year this was published, http://antcat.s3.amazonaws.com/6399/demarco___cognato_2015_ann_entomol_soc_am_aphaenogaster_phylogeny.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJJR3DGROFMVL2FBQ&Expires=1455128142&Signature=BbPsoc%2FwLxeE%2F91%2FPV8SjGj4iGs%3D, resurrecting the genus Novomessor out of Aphaenogaster, requiring listing Novomessor in the tribe Stenammini, and moving two species from Aphaenogaster to Novomessor, with masculine endings, namely, albisetosus, cockerelli.

Am I permitted to edit this, or should I (preferably) leave this to those more familiar with the formatting, etc.?

Contributed by James C. Trager on 10 February, 2016 - 12:26pm

How Formicinae classification should look, as a result of the fi

Tribe Camponotini Camponotus · Colobopsis
Tribe Formicini Formica · Polyergus
Tribe Lasiini Lasius · Myrmecocystus · Nylanderia · Paratrechina · Prenolepis
Tribe Myrmelachistini Brachymyrmex · *Myrmelachista
Tribe Plagiolepidini Acropyga

… James C. Trager, 15 February, 2016 - 12:20pm

removed

unnecessary comment

… john and jane balaban, 15 February, 2016 - 1:48pm

Sorry, I didn't think it unnecessary.

Because, I failed to mention earlier the necessary changes in placement of Brachymyrmex, Myrmelachista, Nylanderia, Paratrechina, Prenolepis.

Anyway, all looking good now, and awaiting the catching up of posts etc.

I really appreciate everyones's effort . HTML gives me headaches.

… James C. Trager, 15 February, 2016 - 6:54pm

Sorry, we made a comment

that we realized later was unnecessary. But comments can't be deleted, only changed, so we changed it to a statement that we had intended to mean that we deleted one of our own unnecessary comments. Please just ignore that botched comment.

… john and jane balaban, 15 February, 2016 - 7:55pm

OK, we think we moved these around correctly on the Formicidae

info page and in the Taxonomy. It will take a few hours for the images to catch up with the genus page moves. We didn't know why it didn't like your less than symbols in the Novomessor info page so we replaced those with words and now the page seems to open correctly. But check things out and see if we have what you wanted correct. Still waiting to hear from John VanDyk about the best way to make the Colobopsis move

… john and jane balaban, 15 February, 2016 - 1:34pm

Less than

In a field that allows HTML you need to use the four characters < to write less than.

… John F. Carr, 15 February, 2016 - 5:57pm

We created the Novomessor page

and moved the two species there, changing the ending of one, and including the old names in synonymy. All three Info pages would be helped if you were to edit them and add important information to them. It will take a while for the images to catch up with the page moves, but they will follow along shortly. We will send a note to John VanDyk about the other change.

We did not make any changes to the main Formicidae Info page. Looks like there is some catching up to do on that page. Not sure who keeps it current.

… john and jane balaban, 10 February, 2016 - 2:20pm

It may be, for example, that John VanDyk

can take the No Taxon Subgenus Colobopsis page and turn it into a Genus Colobopsis page, in which case only the specific epithets will need to be edited and all the info and images will simply transfer over.

… john and jane balaban, 10 February, 2016 - 2:05pm

Depending on the change being made

it is often possible to just rename a page and then move the entire page around in the guide to a new position. This takes everything with it, links and comments and all. Rather than creating new pages and moving individual items and then deleting pages which causes all the old links to be broken. We'll take a look and make some suggestions as best as we can understand. Others will probably have some suggestions on how best to accomplish the changes also.

… john and jane balaban, 10 February, 2016 - 1:58pm

Thanks.

I appreciate whatever can be done to do these updates.

Edited Novomessor genus page, but the identification section does not show in its entirety.

… James C. Trager, 10 February, 2016 - 2:20pm

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