Protanilla
| Protanilla | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Protanilla rafflesi worker | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Leptanillinae |
| Tribe: | Anomalomyrmini |
| Genus: | Protanilla Taylor, 1990 |
| Type species | |
| Protanilla rafflesi Taylor, 1990 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 7 species | |
Protanilla is a genus of ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae.[2] Known from the Indomalaya ecozone, the genus contains seven species and at least one formally undescribed species, P. wallacei. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species P. rafflesi, described from workers from Peninsular Malaysia. Four species are known from China (P. bicolor, P. concolor, P. gengma and P. tibeta), one from Taiwan (P. lini), one Sri Lanka (P. schoedli).[3][4]
Species
- Protanilla bicolor Xu, 2002
- Protanilla concolor Xu, 2002
- Protanilla gengma Xu, 2012
- Protanilla lini Terayama, 2009
- Protanilla rafflesi Taylor, 1990
- Protanilla schoedli Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2006
- Protanilla tibeta Xu, 2012
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Protanilla". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "Genus: Protanilla". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ↑ Borowiec, M. L.; Schulz, A.; Alpert, G. D.; Baňař, P. (2011). "Discovery of the worker caste and descriptions of two new species of Anomalomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) with unique abdominal morphology.". Zootaxa 2810: 1–14.
- ↑ Xu, Z.-H. (2012). "Furcotanilla, a new genus of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae from China with descriptions of two new species of Protanilla and P. rafflesi Taylor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).". Sociobiology 59: 477–491.
External links
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