Protanilla

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Protanilla
Protanilla rafflesi casent0102375 profile 1.jpg
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]
13 species

Protanilla is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae.[2] Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species P. rafflesi, described from workers from Peninsular Malaysia. Species in this genus have long and downcurved mandibles with peg-like tooth on the inner margins. Four species are known from China (P. bicolor, P. concolor, P. gengma and P. tibeta), one from Taiwan (P. lini), one from Sri Lanka (P. schoedli)[3][4] and a couple from India (P. wardi, P. flamma).[5][6]

Species[]

  • Man et al., 2017
  • Xu, 2002
  • Xu, 2002
  • Baidya & Bagchi, 2020
  • Protanilla furcomandibula Xu & Zhang, 2002
  • Xu, 2012
  • Terayama, 2013
  • Hsu et al., 2017
  • Terayama, 2009
  • Taylor, 1990
  • Protanilla schoedli Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2006
  • Xu, 2012
  • Bharti & Akbar, 2015

References[]

  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2021). "Protanilla". AntCat. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Genus: Protanilla". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  3. ^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2810.1.1.
  4. ^ 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 (2): 477–491. doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v59i2.612.
  5. ^ Bharti, H.; Akbar, S.A. (2015). "First record of genus Protanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from India with description of a new species". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. Elsevier, Korean Society of Applied Entomology and the Taiwan Entomological Society. 18 (3): 573–576. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2015.04.008.
  6. ^ Baidya, Pronoy; Bagchi, Sumanta (2020). "A new species of Protanilla Taylor 1990 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from India". doi:10.5281/zenodo.3941686. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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