Prionopelta

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: Amblyoponinae
Genus: Prionopelta
Species: P. aethiopica – P. amabilis – P. amieti – P. antillana – P. brocha – P. descarpentriesi – P. humicola – P. kraepelini – P. laurae – P. majuscula – P. marthae – P. media – P. modesta – P. opaca – P. punctulata – P. robynmae – P. seychelles – P. subtilis – P. talos – P. vampira – P. xerosilva
Name

Prionopelta Mayr, 1866a

Type-species: Prionopelta punctulata, by monotypy.

Synonymy

Concoctio Brown, 1974: 29 [Junior synonym of Prionopelta: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691]
Type-species: Concoctio concenta, by original designation.

References

Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53: 484-517.
Overson, R. & Fisher, B.L. 2015: Taxonomic revision of the genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Malagasy region. Zookeys 507: 115–150. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.507.9303 Article view Reference page.
Shattuck, S.O. 2008: Revision of the ant genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Pacific region. Zootaxa, 1846: 21-34. Abstract & excerpt
Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic entomology 41: 683–693. [2016-06-02] DOI: 10.1111/syen.12186 Reference page. [syn. of Concoctio: p. 691]

Prionopelta is a genus of ants in the subfamily Amblyoponinae.[2] Of its 15 species, four are known from Africa, five from the Americas and six from the Indo-Pacific region.[3]
Species

Prionopelta aethiopica Arnold, 1949
Prionopelta amabilis Borgmeier, 1949
Prionopelta amieti Terron, 1974
Prionopelta antillana Forel, 1909
Prionopelta brocha Wilson, 1958
Prionopelta descarpentriesi Santschi, 1924
Prionopelta humicola Terron, 1974
Prionopelta kraepelini Forel, 1905
Prionopelta majuscula Emery, 1897
Prionopelta marthae Forel, 1909
Prionopelta media Shattuck, 2008
Prionopelta modesta Forel, 1909
Prionopelta opaca Emery, 1897
Prionopelta punctulata Mayr, 1866
Prionopelta robynmae Shattuck, 2008

References

Bolton, B. (2014). "Prionopelta". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
"Genus: Prionopelta". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
Shattuck, S. O. (2008). "Revision of the ant genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Pacific region". Zootaxa. 1846: 21–34. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1846.1.2.