Anonychomyrma

Anonychomyrma Temporal range: Lutetian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Anonychomyrma gilberti worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Leptomyrmecini
Genus:	Anonychomyrma Donisthorpe, 1947
Type species
Anonychomyrma myrmex Donisthorpe, 1947
Diversity [1]
26 species

Anonychomyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. ^[2]

Distribution and habitat

This genus is mainly distributed in New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Australia; a single species is known from Malaysia and Indonesia. They nest on the ground or in treez, with colonies consisting of 567 to tens of thousands individuals. ^[3]

Species

• Anonychomyrma anguliceps (Forel, 1901)
• Anonychomyrma angusta (Stitz, 1911)
• Anonychomyrma arcadia (Forel, 1915)
• Anonychomyrma biconvexa (Santschi, 1928)
• Anonychomyrma dimorpha (Viehmeyer, 1912)
• Anonychomyrma extensa (Emery, 1887)
• Anonychomyrma fornicata (Emery, 1914)
• Anonychomyrma froggatti (Forel, 1902)
• Anonychomyrma gigantea (Donisthorpe, 1943)
• Anonychomyrma gilberti (Forel, 1902)
• Anonychomyrma glabrata (Smith, 1857)
• Anonychomyrma incisa (Stitz, 1932)
• Anonychomyrma inclinata
• Anonychomyrma itinerans (Lowne, 1865)
• Anonychomyrma longicapitata (Donisthorpe, 1947)
• Anonychomyrma longiceps (Forel, 1907)
• Anonychomyrma malandana (Forel, 1915)
• Anonychomyrma minuta (Donisthorpe, 1943)
• Anonychomyrma murina (Emery, 1911)
• Anonychomyrma myrmex Donisthorpe, 1947
• Anonychomyrma nitidiceps (André, 1896)
• Anonychomyrma polita (Stitz, 1912)
• Anonychomyrma procidua (Erichson, 1842)
• Anonychomyrma purpurescens (Lowne, 1865)
• Anonychomyrma scrutator (Smith, 1859)
• Anonychomyrma sellata (Stitz, 1911)
• Anonychomyrma tigris (Stitz, 1912)

References

1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Anonychomyrma". AntCat. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
2. "Genus: Anonychomyrma". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 21 September 2013.
3. Shattuck, S. (2000). Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 125–126. ISBN   978-0-643-06659-5.

External links

• Media related to Anonychomyrma at Wikimedia Commons