Protanilla
Taylor, 1990
valid
feminine
- Protanilla in Leptanillinae: Anomalomyrmini: Bolton, 1990b: 279; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Kugler, 1992: 107; Bolton, 1994: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 44; Bolton, 2003: 152; Griebenow, 2020: 237.
- Protanilla as genus: all authors.
- Protanilla as senior synonym of Furcotanilla: Hsu et al., 2017: 119, 128.
Junior synonyms
- Furcotanilla Xu, 2012
Genus Protanilla catalogues
Bolton, 1995b: 369.
Genus Protanilla references
Xu, 2002a: 118 (China species key); Xu & Zhang, 2002: 140 (China species key); Borowiec et al., 2011: 10 (diagnosis); Xu, 2012c: 483 (all species key); Eguchi et al., 2014: 22 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Bharti & Akbar, 2015: 575 (all species key); Man et al., 2017: 8 (all species key); Hsu et al., 2017: 129 (all species key); Baidya & Bagchi, 2020: 22 (all species key); Griebenow, 2020: 241 (male-based key); Richter et al., 2021: 85 (head anatomy); Ito et al., 2022: 13 (spermatheca anatomy, ergatoid queen); Satria et al., 2023: 74 (Asia (all) species key).
Citations
- Baidya, P.; Bagchi, S. 2020. A new species of Protanilla Taylor 1990 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from India. Halteres 11:19-24. 10.5281/zenodo.3941686 PDF
- Bharti, H.; Akbar, S. A. 2015. First record of genus Protanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from India with description of a new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 18:573-576. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1990b. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 15:267-282. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Borowiec, M. L.; Schulz, A.; Alpert, G. D.; Baňař, P. 2011. Discovery of the worker caste and descriptions of two new species of Anomalomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) with unique abdominal morphology. Zootaxa 2810:1-14. PDF
- Eguchi, K.; Viet, B. T.; Yamane, S. 2014. Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part II—Cerapachyinae, Aenictinae, Dorylinae, Leptanillinae, Amblyoponinae, Ponerinae, Ectatomminae and Proceratiinae. Zootaxa 3860 (1):1-46. 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.1.1 PDF
- Griebenow, Z. 2020. Delimitation of tribes in the subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a description of the male of Protanilla lini Terayama, 2009. Myrmecological News 30:229-250. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_030:229 PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- Hsu, P.-W.; Hsu, F.-C.; Hsiao Y.; Lin, C.-C. 2017. Taxonomic notes on the genus Protanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from Taiwan. Zootaxa 4268:117-130. 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.1.7 PDF
- Ito, F.; Hashim, R.; Mizuno, R.; Billen, J. 2022. Notes on the biology of Protanilla sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected in Ulu Gombak, Peninsular Malaysia. Insectes Sociaux 69:13-18. 10.1007/s00040-021-00839-z PDF
- Kugler, C. 1992. Stings of ants of the Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 99:103-115. PDF
- Man, P.; Ran, H.; Chen, Z.; Xu, Z. 2017. The northern-most record of Leptanillinae in China with description of Protanilla beijingensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Asian Myrmecology 9:12 pp. e009008. 10.20362/am.009008 PDF
- Richter, A.; Hita Garcia, F.; Keller, R. A.; Billen, J.; Katzke, J.; Boudinot, B. E.; Economo, E. P.; Beutel, R. G. 2021. The head anatomy of Protanilla lini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae), with a hypothesis of their mandibular movement. Myrmecological News 31:85-114. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:85 PDF
- Satria, R.; Putri, D. H.; Ahda, Y. 2023. Genus Protanilla Taylor, 1990 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from Sumatra, with the description of a new species. Serangga 28 (1):69-78. PDF
- Taylor, R. W. 1990. Protanilla Taylor gen. n. Pp. 279-280 in: Bolton, B. 1990b. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 15:267-282. PDF
- Xu, Z.-H. 2002a. A systematic study on the ant subfamily Leptanillinae of China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 45:115-120. PDF
- Xu, Z.-H. 2012c. 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. PDF
- Xu, Z.-H.; Zhang, J.-L. 2002. Two new species of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae from Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 27:139-144. PDF
Extant: 14 valid species
More statistics†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae