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Paraparatrechina
''Paraparatrechina'' is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus contains 31 species distributed in the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. Distribution and habitat The genus is restricted to the Paleotropics. Thirteen species are known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, and twenty-five species and subspecies from Asia and Australia, although preliminary study suggests that there are many undescribed species. Very little is known about the biology of ''Paraparatrechina'' in the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. They have been found in a wide range of tropical habitats from rainforests to forest clearings in sifted leaf litter, rotten logs, under stones, and from beating vegetation and fogging samples from the forest canopy. Taxonomy ''Paraparatrechina'' was first described as a subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' by Donisthorpe (1947). LaPolla ''et al.'' (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus to genus rank based on both morphological and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraparatrechina Caledonica
''Paraparatrechina'' is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus contains 31 species distributed in the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. Distribution and habitat The genus is restricted to the Paleotropics. Thirteen species are known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, and twenty-five species and subspecies from Asia and Australia, although preliminary study suggests that there are many undescribed species. Very little is known about the biology of ''Paraparatrechina'' in the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. They have been found in a wide range of tropical habitats from rainforests to forest clearings in sifted leaf litter, rotten logs, under stones, and from beating vegetation and fogging samples from the forest canopy. Taxonomy ''Paraparatrechina'' was first described as a subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' by Donisthorpe (1947). LaPolla ''et al.'' (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus to genus rank based on both morphological and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraparatrechina Brunnella
''Paraparatrechina'' is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus contains 31 species distributed in the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. Distribution and habitat The genus is restricted to the Paleotropics. Thirteen species are known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, and twenty-five species and subspecies from Asia and Australia, although preliminary study suggests that there are many undescribed species. Very little is known about the biology of ''Paraparatrechina'' in the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. They have been found in a wide range of tropical habitats from rainforests to forest clearings in sifted leaf litter, rotten logs, under stones, and from beating vegetation and fogging samples from the forest canopy. Taxonomy ''Paraparatrechina'' was first described as a subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' by Donisthorpe (1947). LaPolla ''et al.'' (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus to genus rank based on both morphological and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraparatrechina Albipes
''Paraparatrechina'' is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus contains 31 species distributed in the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. Distribution and habitat The genus is restricted to the Paleotropics. Thirteen species are known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, and twenty-five species and subspecies from Asia and Australia, although preliminary study suggests that there are many undescribed species. Very little is known about the biology of ''Paraparatrechina'' in the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. They have been found in a wide range of tropical habitats from rainforests to forest clearings in sifted leaf litter, rotten logs, under stones, and from beating vegetation and fogging samples from the forest canopy. Taxonomy ''Paraparatrechina'' was first described as a subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' by Donisthorpe (1947). LaPolla ''et al.'' (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus to genus rank based on both morphological and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraparatrechina Pallida
''Paraparatrechina'' is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus contains 31 species distributed in the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. Distribution and habitat The genus is restricted to the Paleotropics. Thirteen species are known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, and twenty-five species and subspecies from Asia and Australia, although preliminary study suggests that there are many undescribed species. Very little is known about the biology of ''Paraparatrechina'' in the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. They have been found in a wide range of tropical habitats from rainforests to forest clearings in sifted leaf litter, rotten logs, under stones, and from beating vegetation and fogging samples from the forest canopy. Taxonomy ''Paraparatrechina'' was first described as a subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' by Donisthorpe (1947). LaPolla ''et al.'' (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus to genus rank based on both morphological and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraparatrechina Bufona
''Paraparatrechina'' is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus contains 31 species distributed in the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. Distribution and habitat The genus is restricted to the Paleotropics. Thirteen species are known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, and twenty-five species and subspecies from Asia and Australia, although preliminary study suggests that there are many undescribed species. Very little is known about the biology of ''Paraparatrechina'' in the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. They have been found in a wide range of tropical habitats from rainforests to forest clearings in sifted leaf litter, rotten logs, under stones, and from beating vegetation and fogging samples from the forest canopy. Taxonomy ''Paraparatrechina'' was first described as a subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' by Donisthorpe (1947). LaPolla ''et al.'' (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus to genus rank based on both morphological and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraparatrechina Butteli
''Paraparatrechina'' is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus contains 31 species distributed in the tropics of Africa, Asia and Australia. Distribution and habitat The genus is restricted to the Paleotropics. Thirteen species are known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, and twenty-five species and subspecies from Asia and Australia, although preliminary study suggests that there are many undescribed species. Very little is known about the biology of ''Paraparatrechina'' in the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. They have been found in a wide range of tropical habitats from rainforests to forest clearings in sifted leaf litter, rotten logs, under stones, and from beating vegetation and fogging samples from the forest canopy. Taxonomy ''Paraparatrechina'' was first described as a subgenus of ''Paratrechina'' by Donisthorpe (1947). LaPolla ''et al.'' (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus to genus rank based on both morphological and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Propodeum
The propodeum or propodium is the first abdominal segment in Apocrita Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants). It is fused with the thorax to form the mesosoma. It is a single large sclerite, not subdivided, and bears a pair of spiracles. It is strongly constricted posteriorly to form the articulation of the petiole, and gives apocritans their distinctive shape. There may be a suture between the propodeum and the thorax, like in Symphyta Sawflies are the insects of the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera, alongside ants, bees, and wasps. The common name comes from the saw-like appearance of the ovipositor, which the females use to cut into the plants where they lay ... or not, and the presence or absence of such suture can aid in identifying specimens. In molluscs Propodium is the anterior (frontal) part of the foot of a mollusk. References Insect anatomy Gastropod anatomy {{insect-anatomy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesonotum
The mesothorax is the middle of the three segments of the thorax of hexapods, and bears the second pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the mesonotum (dorsal), the mesosternum (ventral), and the mesopleuron (lateral) on each side. The mesothorax is the segment that bears the forewings in all winged insects, though sometimes these may be reduced or modified, as in beetles (Coleoptera) or Dermaptera, in which they are sclerotized to form the elytra ("wing covers"), and the Strepsiptera, in which they are reduced to form halteres that attach to the mesonotum. All adult insects possess legs on the mesothorax. In some groups of insects, the mesonotum is hypertrophied, such as in Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera), in which the anterior portion of the mesonotum (called the mesoscutum, or simply "scutum") forms most of the dorsal surface of the thorax. In these orders, there is also typically a small sclerite attached to the mesonotum that covers the wing ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
