Prionopelta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Amblyoponinae
Genus: Prionopelta
Species: P. aethiopica – P. amabilis – P. amieti – P. antillana – P. brocha – P. descarpentriesi – P. humicola – P. kraepelini – P. laurae – P. majuscula – P. marthae – P. media – P. modesta – P. opaca – P. punctulata – P. robynmae – P. seychelles – P. subtilis – P. talos – P. vampira – P. xerosilva

Name

Prionopelta Mayr, 1866a

Type-species: Prionopelta punctulata, by monotypy.

Synonymy

Concoctio Brown, 1974: 29 [Junior synonym of Prionopelta: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691]
- Type-species: Concoctio concenta, by original designation.

References

Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53: 484-517.

Overson, R. & Fisher, B.L. 2015: Taxonomic revision of the genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Malagasy region. Zookeys 507: 115–150. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.507.9303 Article view Reference page.
Shattuck, S.O. 2008: Revision of the ant genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Pacific region. Zootaxa, 1846: 21-34. Abstract & excerpt

Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic entomology 41: 683–693. [2016-06-02] DOI: 10.1111/syen.12186 Reference page. [syn. of Concoctio: p. 691]

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