Philidris
| Philidris | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Philidris brunnea worker | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Philidris Shattuck, 1992 |
| Type species | |
| Formica cordata | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 9 species | |
Philidris is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.[2] The genus is known from tropical forests from eastern India to northern Australia. It is similar to the genus Iridomyrmex, from where the type species was transferred from by Shattuck (1992).[3]
Species
- Philidris brunnea (Donisthorpe, 1949)
- Philidris cordata (Smith, 1859)
- Philidris cruda (Smith, 1860)
- Philidris jiugongshanensis Wang & Wu, 2007
- Philidris laevigata (Emery, 1895)
- Philidris myrmecodiae (Emery, 1887)
- Philidris nagasau (Mann, 1921)
- Philidris notiala Zhou & Zheng, 1998
- Philidris pubescens (Donisthorpe, 1949)
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Philidris". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "Genus: Philidris". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ↑ Shattuck, S. O. (1992). "Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).". Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31: 13–18.
External links
Media related to Philidris at Wikimedia Commons
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