Protanilla is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species P. rafflesi, described from workers from Peninsular Malaysia. Species in this genus have long and downcurved mandibles with peg-like tooth on the inner margins. 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 a couple from India (P. wardi, P. flamma).
Protanilla is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species P. rafflesi, described from workers from Peninsular Malaysia. Species in this genus have long and downcurved mandibles with peg-like tooth on the inner margins. 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 a couple from India (P. wardi, P. flamma).
==Species== Protanilla beijingensis Man et al., 2017 Protanilla bicolor Xu, 2002 Protanilla boltoni (Borowiec et al., 2011) Protanilla concolor Xu, 2002 Protanilla eguchii Satria et al., 2023 Protanilla flamma Baidya & Bagchi, 2020 Protanilla furcomandibula Xu & Zhang, 2002 Protanilla gengma Xu, 2012 Protanilla helenae (Borowiec et al., 2011) Protanilla izanagi Terayama, 2013 Protanilla jongi Hsu et al., 2017 Protanilla lini Terayama, 2009 Protanilla rafflesi Taylor, 1990 Protanilla rong Griebenow et al., 2025 Protanilla schoedli Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2006 Protanilla shanyii Chen et al., 2025 Protanilla taylori (Bolton, 1990) Protanilla tibeta Xu, 2012 Protanilla wallacei Griebenow, 2024 Protanilla wardi Bharti & Akbar, 2015 Protanilla xui Chen et al., 2025
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