Protanilla

Protanilla is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae.[2] Known from the Indomalaya ecozone, the genus contains about twelve 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]

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]
12 species

Species
  • Protanilla bicolor Xu, 2002
  • Protanilla concolor Xu, 2002
  • Protanilla flamma Baidya & Bagchi, 2020
  • Protanilla furcomandibula Xu & Zhang, 2002
  • Protanilla gengma Xu, 2012
  • Protanilla izanagi Terayama, 2013
  • Protanilla jongi Hsu et al., 2017
  • Protanilla lini Terayama, 2009
  • Protanilla rafflesi Taylor, 1990
  • Protanilla schoedli Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2006
  • Protanilla tibeta Xu, 2012
  • Protanilla wardi Bharti & Akbar, 2015

References
  1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Protanilla". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  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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