Axinidris (lat.) - the genus of ants of the subfamily dolichoderina ( Dolichoderinae , Tapinomini ). Afrotropics (from Sudan to South Africa ). More than 20 species [2] [3] .
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Description
Small earthen ants are usually brown in color (from yellow to brownish-black). The antennae of females and workers are 12-segmented (in males, antennas consist of 13 segments). Zhval workers with 7-12 teeth. The mandibular palps are 6-segmented, the lower labial palps are composed of 4 segments. Shins of middle and hind legs with one apical spur. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of one segment ( petiol ). Sometimes isolated in a separate tribe Axinidrini [2] [3] [4] [5] .
Head structure
Axinidris bidens
Axinidris gabonica
Axinidris hypoclinoides
Axinidris lignicola
Axinidris luhya
Axinidris mlalu
Systematics
More than 20 species, the first of which was described only in 1941.
- Axinidris acholli
- Axinidris bidens
- Axinidris denticulata
- Axinidris gabonica
- Axinidris ghanensis
- Axinidris hylekoites
- Axinidris hypoclinoides
- Axinidris icipe
- Axinidris kakamegensis
- Axinidris kinoin
- Axinidris lignicola
- Axinidris luhya
- Axinidris mlalu
- Axinidris murielae
- Axinidris namib
- Axinidris nigripes
- Axinidris occidentalis
- Axinidris okekai
- Axinidris palligastrion
- Axinidris stageri
- Axinidris tridens
Notes
- ↑ Weber, NA 1941. Four new genera of Ethiopian and Neotropical Formicidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 34: 183-194. (page 192, 193, Axinidris as genus; Axinidris in Dolichoderinae, Axinidrini)
- ↑ 1 2 Snelling, RR 2007. A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80: 551-579.
- ↑ 1 2 Shattuck, SO 1991. Revision of the dolichoderine ant genus Axinidris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Syst. Entomol. 16: 105-120 (page 105, revision of genus)
- ↑ Bolton B. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. (English) // Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. - Gainesville, FL: American Entomological Institute, 2003. - Vol. 71 . - P. 1-370 . - ISBN 1-887988-15-7 .
- ↑ Dlussky, GM; Fedoseeva, EB 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, AG (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 78, Axinidris in Dolichoderinae, Axinidrini)
Literature
- Bolton B. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. - Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1994 .-- 222 p.
- Bolton B. A new general catalog of the ants of the world. - Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1995 .-- 504 p.
- Bolton B. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. (English) // Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. - Gainesville, FL: American Entomological Institute, 2003. - Vol. 71 . - P. 1-370 . - ISBN 1-887988-15-7 .
- Shattuck, SO Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae ) // Journal of the Australian Entomological Society. - 1992 .-- P. 13-18.
- Shattuck, SO Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (Eng.) // Sociobiology. - 1992. - Vol. 21. - P. 1-181.
- Shattuck, SO Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (Eng.) // University of California Publications in Entomology. - 1994. - Vol. 112. - P. 1-241.