Prenolepis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Plagiolepidini
Genus: Prenolepis
Species: P. acuminata – P. angularis – P. angulinoda – P. cyclopia – P. darlena – P. emmae – P. fisheri – P. fustinoda – P. gibberosa – P. henschei – P. imparis – P. jacobsoni – P. jerdoni – P. lakekamu – P. mediops – P. melanogaster – P. naoroji – P. nepalensis – P. nitens – P. pygmaea – P. quinquedenta – P. shanialena – P. striata
Name

Prenolepis Mayr, 1861: Die Europ. Formiciden, 11, 26.

Type species: Tapinoma nitens Mayr, 1853 (=Prenolepis nitens).
References

Mayr, G. 1861. Die europäischen Formiciden. Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Wien: C. Gerolds Sohn, 80 pp. Online.
Chen, Z.L. & Zhou, S.Y. 2018. A review of the ant genus Prenolepis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in China, with descriptions of four new species. Zoological Systematics 43(1): 58–65. DOI: 10.11865/zs.201806 Reference page.
Emery, C. 1906. Note sur Prenolepis vividula Nyl. et sur la classification des espèces du genre Prenolepis. Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, 50: 130–134. BHL Reference page.
LaPolla, J.S., Brady, S.G. & Shattuck, S.O. 2010. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Prenolepis genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic entomology 35(1): 118–131. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00492.x Reference page.
Williams, J.L. & LaPolla, J.S. 2016. Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the ant genus Prenolepis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4200(2): 201–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.1. Reference page.
Williams, J.L. & LaPolla, J.S. 2018. Two new Prenolepis species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Indomalaya and Australasia, with a redescription of P. dugasi from Vietnam. Zootaxa 4441(1): 171–180. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.10 Paywall Reference page.
Xu, Z.-H. 1996. Two New Species of The Ant Genus Prenolepis From Yunnan China (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Zoological Research 16(4): 337–341. Online.

Prenolepis is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.[2] Most species are found in southeastern Asia and southern China, but the genus has a wide distribution with species known from North America, southern Europe, Anatolia, Cuba, Haiti, and West Africa.[3]
Species

Prenolepis angularis Zhou, 2001
Prenolepis cyclopia Chen & Zhou, 2018
Prenolepis darlena Williams & LaPolla, 2016
Prenolepis dugasi Forel, 1911
Prenolepis fisheri Bharti & Wachkoo, 2012
Prenolepis fustinoda Williams & LaPolla, 2016
†Prenolepis henschei Mayr, 1868
Prenolepis imparis (Say, 1836)
Prenolepis jacobsoni Crawley, 1923
Prenolepis jerdoni Emery, 1893
Prenolepis lakekamu Williams & LaPolla, 2018
Prenolepis mediops Williams & LaPolla, 2016
Prenolepis melanogaster Emery, 1893
Prenolepis naoroji Forel, 1902
Prenolepis nepalensis Williams & LaPolla, 2018
Prenolepis nitens (Mayr, 1853)
Prenolepis quinquedenta Chen & Zhou, 2018
Prenolepis shanialena Williams & LaPolla, 2016
Prenolepis striata Chen & Zhou, 2018
Prenolepis subopaca Emery, 1900

References

Bolton, B. (2021). "Prenolepis". AntCat. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
"Genus: Prenolepis". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
LaPolla, John S.; Brady, Seán G.; Shattuck, Steven O. (2010). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Prenolepis genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Systematic Entomology. 35 (1): 118–131. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00492.x. S2CID 86659687.