{{Short description|Genus of ants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Casent0217322 p 1 high.jpg |image_caption = Worker specimen of ''X. muticus'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Xymmer |authority = Santschi, 1914 }} '''''Xymmer''''' is a genus of ant in the subfamily Amblyoponinae containing the three species: ''Xymmer muticus'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Genus: Xymmer |website=AntWeb |url=http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Xymmer&rank=genus&project=allantwebants |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-date=22 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922220618/http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Xymmer&rank=genus&project=allantwebants }}</ref> ''Xymmer phungi'', and ''Xymmer paniscus''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hamer |first1=Matthew T. |last2=GóMez |first2=Kiko |last3=Jocque |first3=Merlijn |title=A new Xymmer Santschi, 1914 (Formicidae: Amblyoponinae) species from the Congo Basin, with male and female descriptions of X. muticus (Santschi, 1914) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=5647 |issue=5 |date=18 June 2025 |issn=1175-5334 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5647.5.7 |pages=479–495 |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5647.5.7 |access-date=29 August 2025|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Xymmer'' was first described by Felix Santschi in 1914 as a monotypic subgeneric taxon under ''Stigmatomma''.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Santschi F |date=1914 |title=Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de M. le Professeur F. Silvestri |journal=Boll Lab Zool Gen Agrar Fac Agrar Portici 8 |pages=309–385}}</ref> Since Santschi's original description, ''Xymmer'' was raised to genus by Wheeler (1922) in his identification key for African Amblyoponini.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Wheeler WM |date=1922 |title=Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants |journal=Bull Am Mus Nat Hist |volume=45 |pages=631–710}}</ref> Clark (1934) regarded ''Xymmer'' as a subgenus in ''Amblyopone''<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Clark J |date=1934 |title=New Australian ants |journal=Mem Natl Mus Vic |volume=8 |pages=21–47|doi=10.24199/j.mmv.1934.8.02 |doi-access= }}</ref> following Wheeler's suggestion;<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.2307/25130101| jstor=25130101| title=Ants of the Genus Amblyopone Erichson| year=1927| last1=Wheeler| first1=William Morton| journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences| volume=62| issue=1| pages=1–29| url=https://zenodo.org/record/25206}}</ref> however, distinguishing characters were not discussed in their treatments. Brown (1949, 1960)<ref>{{cite journal |volume=56 |title=A New American Amblyopone, With Notes on the Genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |year=1949 |pages=81–88 |vauthors=Brown WL |issue=2 |doi=10.1155/1949/67378 |doi-access=free |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/181499}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Brown WL Jr |date=1960 |title=Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera) |journal=Bull Mus Comp Zool |volume=122 |pages=143–230}}</ref> discussed separable characters for ''Xymmer'' (as a junior synonym under the subgenus ''Stigmatomma'') for the first time since Santschi's original description. Brown regarded ''Stigmatomma'' and its related names as junior synonyms of ''Amblyopone'' at that time. ''Xymmer'' was resurrected to its current placement as an independent genus from synonymy with ''Amblyopone'' based on a morphological examination by Yoshimura & Fisher (2012).<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Yoshimura M, Fisher BL |veditors=Martin SJ |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 |title=A Revision of Male Ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Resurrections of the Genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=7 |issue=3 |article-number=e33325 |year=2012 |pmid=22496722| pmc=3320654|bibcode=2012PLoSO...733325Y |doi-access=free }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{refbegin}} *{{OA-attribution| {{Cite journal | last1 = Yoshimura | first1 = M. | last2 = Fisher | first2 = B. L. | editor1-last = Martin | editor1-first = Stephen J | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 | title = A Revision of Male Ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Resurrections of the Genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 7 | issue = 3 | article-number = e33325 | year = 2012 | pmid = 22496722| pmc =3320654 | bibcode = 2012PLoSO...733325Y | doi-access = free }} }} {{refend}}
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Category:Amblyoponinae Category:Taxa named by Felix Santschi
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