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: Crustacea
Superclassis: Allotriocarida
Classis: 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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