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Myrmecina

Liu, Cong;Fischer, Georg;Liu, Qing;Peng, Yan-Qiong;Economo, Evan P.;Guénard, Benoit

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Myrmecina is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It contains 53 species distributed in North America, Europe, northern Africa, India, Korea, Japan and Australia.

Species

woodlouse ant

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHymenoptera
  5. FamilyFormicidae
Observations754
Observations recorded12,637

Myrmecina Latreillii , Curtis, Brit. Ent. vi. 265 [[male]]; Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 218. t. 23. f. 22 [[worker]]. Smith, Brit. Form. 132. 1. Mayr. Form. Austr. 149.1; Ungar. Ameis. 18. 1. Myrmica striatula, Nyl. Addit . Alt. Mon. Form. Bor. Eur. 40. 7; Form. Fr. et d'Alger. 96. 24. Myrmica bidens, Foerst . Hym. Stud. Form. 50. 24. Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. 94. Myrmica graminicola, Foerst . Hym. Stud. Form. 58. 30. Hab. Europe.

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
558
With media
13
Family
Formicidae
Collections
MHNCA, CAS, MCZ, NHMUK
Recorded in
Mexico, Papua New Guinea, United States, Canada, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia

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Myrmecina is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It contains 53 species distributed in North America, Europe, northern Africa, India, Korea, Japan and Australia.

==Species== Myrmecina alpina Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina amamiana Terayama, 1996 Myrmecina americana Emery, 1895 Myrmecina atlantis Santschi, 1939 Myrmecina australis Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973 Myrmecina bandarensis Forel, 1913 Myrmecina bawai Punnath, Karunakaran, Dharma, 2021 Myrmecina brevicornis Emery, 1897 Myrmecina butteli Forel, 1913 Myrmecina cacabau Mann, 1921 Myrmecina curtisi Donisthorpe, 1949 Myrmecina curvispina Zhou, Huang & Ma, 2008 Myrmecina difficulta Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina eruga Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina flava Terayama, 1985 Myrmecina graminicola (Latreille, 1802) Myrmecina guangxiensis Zhou, 2001 Myrmecina hamula Zhou, Huang & Ma, 2008 Myrmecina harrisoni Brown, 1967 Myrmecina inaequala Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina kaigong Terayama, 2009 Myrmecina magnificens Wong & Guénard, 2016 Myrmecina mandibularis Viehmeyer, 1914 Myrmecina mellonii Rigato, 1999 Myrmecina modesta Mann, 1919 Myrmecina nesaea Wheeler, 1924 Myrmecina nipponica Wheeler, 1906 Myrmecina opaciventris Emery, 1897 Myrmecina pauca Huang, Huang & Zhou, 2008 Myrmecina pilicornis Smith, 1858 Myrmecina polita Emery, 1897 Myrmecina pumila Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina punctata Emery, 1897 Myrmecina raviwonghei Jaitrong, Samung, Waengsothorn & Okido, 2019 Myrmecina reticulata Punnath, Karunakaran, Dharma, 2021 Myrmecina rugosa Forel, 1902 Myrmecina ryukyuensis Terayama, 1996 Myrmecina sauteri Forel, 1912 Myrmecina semipolita Forel, 1905 Myrmecina sicula André, 1882 Myrmecina silvalaeva Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina silvampla Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina silvangula Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina silvarugosa Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina silvatransversa Shattuck, 2009 Myrmecina sinensis Wheeler, 1921 Myrmecina striata Emery, 1889 Myrmecina strigis Lin & Wu, 1998 Myrmecina sulcata Emery, 1887 Myrmecina taiwana Terayama, 1985 Myrmecina transversa Emery, 1897 Myrmecina undulata Emery, 1900 Myrmecina urbanii Tiwari, 1994 Myrmecina vidyae Tiwari, 1994 Myrmecina wesselensis Shattuck, 2009

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