Genus Myrmecolax Westwood, 1861
- Myrmecolax Westwood, J.O. 1861. Notice of the occurrence of a strepsipterous insect parasitic in ants, discovered in Ceylon by Herr Nietner. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 5: 418–420 [418].
Type species:
Myrmecolax nietneri Westwood, 1861 by monotypy.
Distribution
Widespread, circumtropical.
Distribution References
- Kinzelbach, R.K. 1971. Morphologische Befunde an Fächerflüglern und ihre phylogenetische Bedeutung (Insecta: Strepsiptera). Zoologica (Stuttgart) 41(119): 129–256 (authority for generic synonymy, gives `Westwood 1858' as authority for genus on p. 157 which is presumed to be a lapsus, as no such reference is cited by Westwood)
- Kathirithamby, J. 1989. Review of the order Strepsiptera. Systematic Entomology 14: 41–92
- Kathirithamby, J. 1993. Myrmecolacidae (Strepsiptera) from Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 859–873 (extralimital synonyms)