Furcotanilla

Furcotanilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Leptanillinae
Tribe: Anomalomyrmini
Genus: Furcotanilla
Xu, 2012
Species: F. furcomandibula
Binomial name
Furcotanilla furcomandibula
(Xu & Zhang, 2002)
Type species
Protanilla furcomandibula

Furcotanilla is a genus of ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae containing the single species Furcotanilla furcomandibula.[1] The genus is close to Protanilla, from where the type species Protanilla furcomandibula (now Furcotanilla furcomandibula) was transferred from by Xu (2012). Its only species is known from Yunnan, China, where it nests in the soil and forages on the ground. Queens and males are unknown.[2]

References

  1. "Genus: Furcotanilla". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  2. 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.


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