Froggattella

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Froggattella
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Froggattella kirbii worker
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Leptomyrmecini
Genus: Froggattella
Forel, 1902
Type species
Acantholepis kirbii
Diversity [1]
2 species

Froggattella is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. [2] The genus contains two species found in Australia. Froggattella kirbii is fairly common, while Froggattella latispina is known only from two locations in South Australia. [3]

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The two species range from small to medium in size, where they are found foraging in distinct trails on low vegetation or small sized trees. [4]

Species

References

  1. ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Froggattella". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Genus: Froggattella". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Shattuck, S. O. (1996). "The Australian ant genus Froggattella (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revisited." Australian Journal of Entomology , 35: 43-47
  4. ↑ Shattuck, Steven (1992). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Sociobiology. 21: 1–181.
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