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Tapinolepis

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Tapinolepis

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Tapinolepis is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. Nothing is known about their biology.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHymenoptera
  5. FamilyFormicidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
437
With media
131
Family
Formicidae
Collections
USNM, CAS
Recorded in
Madagascar, South Africa, Rwanda

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Tapinolepis is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. Nothing is known about their biology.

==Species== Tapinolepis bothae (Forel, 1907) Tapinolepis candida (Santschi, 1928) Tapinolepis deceptor (Arnold, 1922) Tapinolepis decolor (Emery, 1895) Tapinolepis litoralis (Arnold, 1958) Tapinolepis longitarsis (Collingwood & Agosti, 1996) Tapinolepis macgregori (Arnold, 1922) Tapinolepis macrophthalma (Arnold, 1962) Tapinolepis mediterranea (Mayr, 1866) Tapinolepis melanaria (Arnold, 1922) Tapinolepis pernix (Viehmeyer, 1923) Tapinolepis simulans (Santschi, 1908) Tapinolepis trimenii (Forel, 1895) Tapinolepis tumidula (Emery, 1915)

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