''Tapinolepis'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
ant
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 ...
s in the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classifica ...
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 lit ...
.
The genus is known from the
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
and
Malagasy regions. Nothing is known about their biology.
Species
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Tapinolepis bothae''
(Forel, 1907)
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Tapinolepis candida''
(Santschi, 1928)
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Tapinolepis deceptor''
(Arnold, 1922)
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Tapinolepis decolor''
(Emery, 1895)
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Tapinolepis litoralis''
(Arnold, 1958)
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Tapinolepis longitarsis''
(Collingwood & Agosti, 1996)
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Tapinolepis macgregori''
(Arnold, 1922)
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Tapinolepis macrophthalma''
(Arnold, 1962)
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Tapinolepis mediterranea''
(Mayr, 1866)
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Tapinolepis melanaria''
(Arnold, 1922)
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Tapinolepis pernix''
(Viehmeyer, 1923)
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Tapinolepis simulans''
(Santschi, 1908)
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Tapinolepis trimenii''
(Forel, 1895)
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Tapinolepis tumidula''
(Emery, 1915)
References
External links
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Formicinae
Ant genera
Hymenoptera of Africa
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