Philidris

Philidris
Philidris brunnea worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Leptomyrmecini
Genus:	Philidris Shattuck, 1992
Type species
Formica cordata
Diversity [1]
9 species

Philidris is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. ^[2] The genus is known from tropical forests from eastern India to northern Australia. It is similar to the genus Iridomyrmex , from where the type species was transferred from by Shattuck (1992). ^[3]

Species

• Philidris brunnea (Donisthorpe, 1949)
• Philidris cordata (Smith, 1859)
• Philidris cruda (Smith, 1860)
• Philidris jiugongshanensis Wang & Wu, 2007
• Philidris laevigata (Emery, 1895)
• Philidris myrmecodiae (Emery, 1887)
• Philidris nagasau (Mann, 1921)
• Philidris notiala Zhou & Zheng, 1998
• Philidris pubescens (Donisthorpe, 1949)

References

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Philidris". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
2. "Genus: Philidris". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 21 September 2013.
3. Shattuck, S. O. (1992). "Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Journal of the Australian Entomological Society. 31: 13–18. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1992.tb00453.x. S2CID   86692743.

External links

• Media related to Philidris at Wikimedia Commons
• Phildris on AntWiki