Echinopla

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Formicinae
Tribus: Camponotini
Genus: Echinopla
Species: E. angustata – E. arfaki – E. australis – E. brevisetosa – E. cherapunjiensis – E. circulus – E. corrugata – E. crenulata – E. deceptor – E. densistriata – E. dubitata – E. fisheri – E. lineata – E. madli – E. maeandrina – E. melanarctos – E. mezgeri – E. mistura – E. nitida – E. octodentata – E. pallipes – E. praetexta – E. pseudostriata – E. rugosa – E. serrata – E. silvestrii – E. striata – E. subtilis – E. tritschleri – E. turneri – E. vermiculata – E. wardi
Name

Echinopla Smith, 1857a: 79

Type species: Echinopla melanarctos, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g: 162.

Echinopla melanarctos

References

Smith, F. 1857a: Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology, 2: 42–88.
Zettel, H. & Laciny, A. 2015. Contributions to the taxonomy of the ant genus Echinopla Smith, 1857 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62(1): 101–121. DOI: 10.3897/dez.62.5093. Reference page.

Echinopla is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.[2] The genus is distributed from Singapore and Sumatra (Indonesia) to the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia.[3]
Species

Echinopla arfaki Donisthorpe, 1943
Echinopla australis Forel, 1901
Echinopla cherapunjiensis Bharti & Gul, 2012
Echinopla corrugata Donisthorpe, 1943
Echinopla crenulata Donisthorpe, 1941
Echinopla deceptor Smith, 1863
Echinopla densistriata Stitz, 1938
Echinopla dubitata Smith, 1862
Echinopla lineata Mayr, 1862
Echinopla maeandrina Stitz, 1938
Echinopla melanarctos Smith, 1857
Echinopla mistura (Smith, 1860)
Echinopla nitida Smith, 1863
Echinopla octodentata Stitz, 1911
Echinopla pallipes Smith, 1857
Echinopla praetexta Smith, 1860
Echinopla pseudostriata Donisthorpe, 1943
Echinopla rugosa André, 1892
Echinopla serrata (Smith, 1859)
Echinopla silvestrii Donisthorpe, 1936
Echinopla striata Smith, 1857
Echinopla tritschleri Forel, 1901
Echinopla turneri Forel, 1901
Echinopla vermiculata Emery, 1898

References

Bolton, B. (2014). "Echinopla". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
"Genus: Echinopla". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
Shattuck, S. (2000). Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification. CSIRO Publishing. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-643-06659-5.