Anomalomyrmini is a
tribe
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of
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
Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrat ...
ants
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 22,00 ...
with three extant genera.
Genera
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Anomalomyrma
''Anomalomyrma'' is an Asian genus of ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. The genus was originally described in 1990 with the type species ''Anomalomyrma taylori'', based on a single dealate queen from Borneo. Workers were unknown until 2011, ...
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Taylor, 1990
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Furcotanilla
''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 ''Furcotanilla ...
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Xu, 2012
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Protanilla
''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 ...
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Taylor, 1990
References
Leptanillinae
Ant tribes
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