''Protanilla'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of subterranean
ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,0 ...
s in the
subfamily Leptanillinae
Leptanillinae is a subfamily of ants. They are further divided into the tribes Anomalomyrmini and Leptanillini.
In all Leptanillini, the larvae feed their hemolymph to the queen through specialized processes on their prothoraces and third abdo ...
.
Known from the
Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...
''P. rafflesi'', described from workers from
Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: سمننجڠ مليسيا), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Jawi: نڬري-نڬري تانه ملايو), also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, ...
. 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
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...
(''P. lini''), one from
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
(''P. schoedli'')
and a couple from
India
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(''P. wardi'', ''P. flamma'').
Species
*'' Protanilla beijingensis'' Man ''et al.'', 2017
*''Protanilla bicolor
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Xu, 2002
*''Protanilla concolor
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Xu, 2002
*''Protanilla flamma
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Baidya & Bagchi, 2020
*''Protanilla furcomandibula
''Furcotanilla'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae containing the single species ''Furcotanilla furcomandibula''. The genus is close to ''Protanilla'', from where the type species ''Protanilla furcomandibula'' (now ''Furcotan ...
'' Xu & Zhang, 2002
*''Protanilla gengma
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Xu, 2012
*''Protanilla izanagi
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Terayama, 2013
*''Protanilla jongi
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Hsu ''et al.'', 2017
*''Protanilla lini
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Terayama, 2009
*''Protanilla rafflesi
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described fr ...
'' Taylor, 1990
*''Protanilla schoedli
''Protanilla schoedli'' is a species of ant in the genus ''Protanilla''. It was first described in 2006 from a gyne collected in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, � ...
'' Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2006
*''Protanilla tibeta
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Xu, 2012
*''Protanilla wardi
''Protanilla'' is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species ''P. rafflesi'', described f ...
'' Bharti & Akbar, 2015
References
External links
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Leptanillinae
Ant genera
Hymenoptera of Asia
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