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Nylanderia
''Nylanderia'' is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution with species inhabiting a wide array of habitats in almost all geographic regions. ''Nylanderia'', currently containing over 110 species, is an ecologically important genus, with some species reported as being invasive. The ants are small to medium in size and range in color from pale yellow to black. Taxonomy The genus was first described as a subgenus of ''Prenolepis'' by Emery (1906), a status he revised a couple of years later when he placed it as subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' (Emery, 1925). Wheeler (1936) raised ''Nylanderia'' to genus, where it remained until Brown (1973) provisionally placed it as a junior synonym of ''Paratrechina'', a status which was later confirmed by Trager (1984). ''Nylanderia'' was finally revived from synonymy and restored at the rank of genus by LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck (2010). Until 2010, most ''Nylanderia'' species were placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nylanderia Pygmaea NHMW-WBE5-3 Profile
''Nylanderia'' is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution with species inhabiting a wide array of habitats in almost all geographic regions. ''Nylanderia'', currently containing over 110 species, is an ecologically important genus, with some species reported as being invasive. The ants are small to medium in size and range in color from pale yellow to black. Taxonomy The genus was first described as a subgenus of ''Prenolepis'' by Emery (1906), a status he revised a couple of years later when he placed it as subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' (Emery, 1925). Wheeler (1936) raised ''Nylanderia'' to genus, where it remained until Brown (1973) provisionally placed it as a junior synonym of ''Paratrechina'', a status which was later confirmed by Trager (1984). ''Nylanderia'' was finally revived from synonymy and restored at the rank of genus by LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck (2010). Until 2010, most ''Nylanderia'' species were place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nylanderia Vetula
''Nylanderia'' is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution with species inhabiting a wide array of habitats in almost all geographic regions. ''Nylanderia'', currently containing over 110 species, is an ecologically important genus, with some species reported as being invasive. The ants are small to medium in size and range in color from pale yellow to black. Taxonomy The genus was first described as a subgenus of ''Prenolepis'' by Emery (1906), a status he revised a couple of years later when he placed it as subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' (Emery, 1925). Wheeler (1936) raised ''Nylanderia'' to genus, where it remained until Brown (1973) provisionally placed it as a junior synonym of ''Paratrechina'', a status which was later confirmed by Trager (1984). ''Nylanderia'' was finally revived from synonymy and restored at the rank of genus by LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck (2010). Until 2010, most ''Nylanderia'' species were place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nylanderia Vividula
''Nylanderia'' is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution with species inhabiting a wide array of habitats in almost all geographic regions. ''Nylanderia'', currently containing over 110 species, is an ecologically important genus, with some species reported as being invasive. The ants are small to medium in size and range in color from pale yellow to black. Taxonomy The genus was first described as a subgenus of ''Prenolepis'' by Emery (1906), a status he revised a couple of years later when he placed it as subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' (Emery, 1925). Wheeler (1936) raised ''Nylanderia'' to genus, where it remained until Brown (1973) provisionally placed it as a junior synonym of ''Paratrechina'', a status which was later confirmed by Trager (1984). ''Nylanderia'' was finally revived from synonymy and restored at the rank of genus by LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck (2010). Until 2010, most ''Nylanderia'' species were placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nylanderia Flavipes
''Nylanderia'' is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution with species inhabiting a wide array of habitats in almost all geographic regions. ''Nylanderia'', currently containing over 110 species, is an ecologically important genus, with some species reported as being invasive. The ants are small to medium in size and range in color from pale yellow to black. Taxonomy The genus was first described as a subgenus of ''Prenolepis'' by Emery (1906), a status he revised a couple of years later when he placed it as subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' (Emery, 1925). Wheeler (1936) raised ''Nylanderia'' to genus, where it remained until Brown (1973) provisionally placed it as a junior synonym of ''Paratrechina'', a status which was later confirmed by Trager (1984). ''Nylanderia'' was finally revived from synonymy and restored at the rank of genus by LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck (2010). Until 2010, most ''Nylanderia'' species were placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paratrechina
''Paratrechina'' is one of seven ant Genus, genera (alongside ''Euprenolepis, Nylanderia, Paraparatrechina, Prenolepis, Pseudolasius,'' and ''Zatania'') in the Prenolepis genus-group, ''Prenolepis'' genus-group from the subfamily Formicinae (Tribe (biology), tribe Lasiini). Six species are included in ''Paratrechina''; one of which, the longhorn crazy ant (''Longhorn crazy ant, Paratrechina longicornis''), is a widespread, pantropical Pest (organism), pest. Species * ''Paratrechina ankarana'' LaPolla & Fisher, 2014 * ''Paratrechina antsingy'' LaPolla & Fisher, 2014 * ''Paratrechina kohli'' (Forel, 1916) * ''Paratrechina longicornis'' (Latreille, 1802) * ''Paratrechina umbra'' (Zhou & Zheng, 1998) * ''Paratrechina zanjensis'' LaPolla, Hawkes & Fisher, 2013 Distribution Most ''Paratrechina'' species are native to Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, but one species, ''Paratrechina umbra'', has only been found in southern China and is native to Southeast Asia. The only species foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nylanderia Pygmaea
''Nylanderia pygmaea'' is an extinct species of formicid in the ant subfamily Formicinae known from fossils found in the Baltic region. History and classification When described ''N. pygmaea'' was known from twenty males and two queen fossils which were fossilized as inclusions in transparent chunks of Baltic amber almost all of which are now presumed lost. Additional individuals of all castes have since been found in Baltic, Bitterfeld, Rovno, and Scandinavian amber. Baltic amber is approximately forty six million years old, having been deposited during Lutetian stage of the Middle Eocene. There is debate on by what plant family the amber was produced, with macrofossil and microfossil evidence suggesting a ''Pinus'' relative, while chemical and spectroscopic evidence suggests ''Agathis'' or ''Sciadopitys''. The paleoenvironment of the Eocene Baltic forests where the ''P. eocenicum'' lived was that of humid temperate to subtropical islands. The forests were composed of most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formicinae
The Formicinae are a subfamily within the Formicidae containing ants of moderate evolutionary development. Formicines retain some primitive features, such as the presence of cocoons around pupae, the presence of ocelli in workers, and little tendency toward reduction of palp or antennal segmentation in most species, except subterranean groups. Extreme modification of mandibles is rare, except in the genera ''Myrmoteras'' and ''Polyergus''. However, some members show considerable evolutionary advancement in behaviors such as slave-making and symbiosis with root-feeding hemipterans. Finally, all formicines have very reduced stings and enlarged venom reservoirs, with the venom gland, specialized (uniquely among ants) for the production of formic acid. All members of the Formicinae "have a one-segmented petiole in the form of a vertical scale". Identification Formicine ants have a single node-like or scale-like petiole (postpetiole entirely lacking) and the apex of the abdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plagiolepidini
Plagiolepidini are an ant tribe from the subfamily Formicinae. The following genera belong to this tribe: * '' Agraulomyrmex'' Prins, 1983 * ''Aphomomyrmex'' Emery, 1899 * ''Bregmatomyrma'' Wheeler, 1929 * ''Euprenolepis'' Emery, 1906 * ''Lepisiota'' Santschi, 1926 * ''Nylanderia'' Emery, 1906 * ''Paraparatrechina'' Donisthorpe, 1947 * ''Paratrechina'' Motschoulsky, 1863 – crazy ants * ''Petalomyrmex'' Snelling, 1979 * ''Plagiolepis'' Mayr, 1861 * ''Prenolepis'' Mayr, 1861 * ''Pseudolasius'' Emery, 1887 * ''Tapinolepis'' Emery, 1925 * ''Zatania ''Zatania'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is known from Central America and the Greater Antilles The Greater Antilles ( es, Grandes Antillas or Antillas Mayores; french: Grandes Antilles; ht, Gwo Zantiy; jam, G ...'' LaPolla, Kallal & Brady, 2012 References External links * Formicinae Ant tribes {{formicinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motility, able to move, can Sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during Embryogenesis, embryonic development. Over 1.5 million Extant taxon, living animal species have been Species description, described—of which around 1 million are Insecta, insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have Ecology, complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a Symmetry in biology#Bilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miocene
The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene is preceded by the Oligocene and is followed by the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of ice ages. The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regionally defined boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch. During the Early Miocene, the Arabian Peninsula collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, and allowing a faunal interchange to occur between Eurasia and Africa, including the dispersal of proboscideans into Eurasia. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Amber
Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree ''Hymenaea protera''. Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being nearly always transparent, and it has a higher number of fossil inclusions. This has enabled the detailed reconstruction of the ecosystem of a long-vanished tropical forest.George Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar, 1999. ''The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World'', (Princeton University Press) Age A study in the early 1990s returned a date up to 40 million years old. However, according to Poinar, Dominican amber dates from Oligocene to Miocene, thus about 25 million years old. The oldest, and hardest of this amber comes from the mountain region north of Santiago. The ''La Cumbre'', ''La Toca'', ''Palo Quemado'', ''La Bucara'', and ''Los Cacaos'' mining sites in the ''Cordillera Septentrional'' not far from Santiago. Amber has also been found in the south-eastern Bayaguana/Sabana de la Mar a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sensu Stricto
''Sensu'' is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of". It is used in a number of fields including biology, geology, linguistics, semiotics, and law. Commonly it refers to how strictly or loosely an expression is used in describing any particular concept, but it also appears in expressions that indicate the convention or context of the usage. Common qualifiers ''Sensu'' is the ablative case of the noun ''sensus'', here meaning "sense". It is often accompanied by an adjective (in the same case). Three such phrases are: *''sensu stricto'' – "in the strict sense", abbreviation ''s.s.'' or ''s.str.''; *''sensu lato'' – "in the broad sense", abbreviation ''s.l.''; *''sensu amplo'' – "in a relaxed, generous (or 'ample') sense", a similar meaning to ''sensu lato''. Søren Kierkegaard uses the phrase ''sensu eminenti'' to mean "in the pre-eminent r most important or significantsense". When appropriate, comparative and superlative adjectives may also be used to convey the meaning o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
