Plagiolepis
| Plagiolepis | |
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| Plagiolepis alluaudi worker from Fiji | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Plagiolepidini |
| Genus: | Plagiolepis Mayr, 1861 |
| Type species | |
| Formica pygmaea | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 72 species | |
Plagiolepis is a genus of ants in the formic acid-producing subfamily Formicinae.[2] The genus is found in tropical and temperate regions of the Old World.[3]
Species
[edit]- Plagiolepis abyssinica Forel, 1894
- Plagiolepis adynata Bolton, 1995
- Plagiolepis alluaudi Emery, 1894
- Plagiolepis ampeloni (Faber, 1969)
- Plagiolepis ancyrensis Santschi, 1920
- Plagiolepis arnoldii Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990
- Plagiolepis augusti Emery, 1921
- Plagiolepis balestrierii Menozzi, 1939
- †Plagiolepis balticus Dlussky, 1997
- Plagiolepis bicolor Forel, 1901
- Plagiolepis boltoni Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor, 2011
- Plagiolepis breviscapa Collingwood & Van Harten, 2005
- Plagiolepis brunni Mayr, 1895
- Plagiolepis calva Radchenko, 1996
- Plagiolepis capensis Mayr, 1865
- Plagiolepis cardiocarenis Chang & He, 2002
- Plagiolepis chirindensis Arnold, 1949
- Plagiolepis clarki Wheeler, 1934
- Plagiolepis compressa Radchenko, 1996
- Plagiolepis decora Santschi, 1914
- Plagiolepis demangei Santschi, 1920
- Plagiolepis deweti Forel, 1904
- Plagiolepis dichroa Forel, 1902
- Plagiolepis dlusskyi Radchenko, 1996
- Plagiolepis exigua Forel, 1894
- Plagiolepis flavescens Collingwood, 1976
- Plagiolepis funicularis Santschi, 1919
- Plagiolepis fuscula Emery, 1895
- Plagiolepis grassei Le Masne, 1956
- Plagiolepis hoggarensis Bernard, 1981
- Plagiolepis intermedia Emery, 1895
- Plagiolepis jerdonii Forel, 1894
- Plagiolepis jouberti Forel, 1910
- Plagiolepis juddi Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor, 2011
- Plagiolepis karawajewi Radchenko, 1989
- †Plagiolepis klinsmanni Mayr, 1868
- †Plagiolepis kuenowi Mayr, 1868
- †Plagiolepis labilis Emery, 1891
- Plagiolepis livingstonei Santschi, 1926
- Plagiolepis longwang Terayama, 2009
- Plagiolepis lucidula Wheeler, 1934
- Plagiolepis madecassa Forel, 1892
- Plagiolepis mediorufa Forel, 1916
- †Plagiolepis minutissima Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002
- Plagiolepis moelleri Bingham, 1903
- Plagiolepis montivaga Arnold, 1958
- Plagiolepis nitida Karavaiev, 1935
- Plagiolepis nynganensis McAreavey, 1949
- Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889
- †Plagiolepis paradoxa Dlussky, 2010
- Plagiolepis pictipes Santschi, 1914
- Plagiolepis pissina Roger, 1863
- Plagiolepis pontii Menozzi, 1939
- Plagiolepis puncta Forel, 1910
- Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798)
- Plagiolepis regis Karavaiev, 1931
- Plagiolepis rogeri Forel, 1894
- Plagiolepis schmitzii Forel, 1895
- Plagiolepis simoni Emery, 1921
- †Plagiolepis singularis Mayr, 1868
- †Plagiolepis solitaria Mayr, 1868
- †Plagiolepis squamifera Mayr, 1868
- Plagiolepis squamulosa Wheeler, 1934
- †Plagiolepis succini André, 1895
- Plagiolepis sudanica Weber, 1943
- Plagiolepis taurica Santschi, 1920
- Plagiolepis vanderkelleni Forel, 1901
- Plagiolepis vindobonensis Lomnicki, 1925
- Plagiolepis vladileni Radchenko, 1996
- †Plagiolepis wheeleri Dlussky, 2010
- Plagiolepis wilsoni (Clark, 1934)
- Plagiolepis xene Stärcke, 1936
References
[edit]- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Plagiolepis". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ "Genus: Plagiolepis". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. (2013). "The Ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—Faunal Overview, First Species Checklist, Bibliography, Accounts for All Genera, and Discussion on Taxonomy and Zoogeography". Journal of East African Natural History. 101 (2): 127. doi:10.2982/028.101.0201. S2CID 84797311.
External links
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