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Protanilla
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Protanilla

Protanilla is a genus of ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalaya ecozone, the genus contains eight species and at least one formally undescribed species, P. wallacei. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species P. rafflesi, described from workers from Peninsular Malaysia. Four species are known from China (P. bicolor, P. concolor, P. gengma and P. tibeta), one from Taiwan (P. lini), one from Sri Lanka (P. schoedli) and one...

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17 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Protanilla lini

speciesProtanilla lini

Protanilla schoedli

speciesProtanilla schoedli

Protanilla tibeta

speciesProtanilla tibeta

Protanilla furcomandibula

speciesProtanilla furcomandibula

Protanilla gengma

speciesProtanilla gengma

Protanilla izanagi

speciesProtanilla izanagi

Protanilla rafflesi

speciesProtanilla rafflesi

Protanilla wardi

speciesProtanilla wardi

Protanilla beijingensis

speciesProtanilla beijingensis

Protanilla bicolor

speciesProtanilla bicolor

Protanilla concolor

speciesProtanilla concolor

Protanilla eguchii

speciesProtanilla eguchii

Protanilla flamma

speciesProtanilla flamma

Protanilla boltoni

speciesProtanilla boltoni

Protanilla helenae

speciesProtanilla helenae

Protanilla taylori

speciesProtanilla taylori

Protanilla jongi

speciesProtanilla jongi

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 637581.