Myrmecina

Not to be confused with Myrmecia (ant) or Myrmica.

Myrmecina
Myrmecina graminicola worker from Japan
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Myrmecina Curtis, 1829
Type species
Myrmecina latreillii Mayr, 1855
Diversity[1]
53 species
Synonyms
Archaeomyrmex Mann, 1921

Myrmecina is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] It contains 53 species distributed in North America, Europe, northern Africa, India, Korea, Japan and Australia.[3]

Species

• Myrmecina alpina Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina amamiana Terayama, 1996
• Myrmecina americana Emery, 1895
• Myrmecina atlantis Santschi, 1939
• Myrmecina australis Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973
• Myrmecina bandarensis Forel, 1913
• Myrmecina bawai Punnath, Karunakaran, Dharma, 2021
• Myrmecina brevicornis Emery, 1897
• Myrmecina butteli Forel, 1913
• Myrmecina cacabau Mann, 1921
• Myrmecina curtisi Donisthorpe, 1949
• Myrmecina curvispina Zhou, Huang & Ma, 2008
• Myrmecina difficulta Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina eruga Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina flava Terayama, 1985
• Myrmecina graminicola (Latreille, 1802)
• Myrmecina guangxiensis Zhou, 2001
• Myrmecina hamula Zhou, Huang & Ma, 2008
• Myrmecina harrisoni Brown, 1967
• Myrmecina inaequala Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina kaigong Terayama, 2009
• Myrmecina magnificens Wong & Guénard, 2016
• Myrmecina mandibularis Viehmeyer, 1914
• Myrmecina mellonii Rigato, 1999
• Myrmecina modesta Mann, 1919
• Myrmecina nesaea Wheeler, 1924
• Myrmecina nipponica Wheeler, 1906
• Myrmecina opaciventris Emery, 1897
• Myrmecina pauca Huang, Huang & Zhou, 2008
• Myrmecina pilicornis Smith, 1858
• Myrmecina polita Emery, 1897
• Myrmecina pumila Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina punctata Emery, 1897
• Myrmecina raviwonghei Jaitrong, Samung, Waengsothorn & Okido, 2019
• Myrmecina reticulata Punnath, Karunakaran, Dharma, 2021
• Myrmecina rugosa Forel, 1902
• Myrmecina ryukyuensis Terayama, 1996
• Myrmecina sauteri Forel, 1912
• Myrmecina semipolita Forel, 1905
• Myrmecina sicula André, 1882
• Myrmecina silvalaeva Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina silvampla Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina silvangula Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina silvarugosa Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina silvatransversa Shattuck, 2009
• Myrmecina sinensis Wheeler, 1921
• Myrmecina striata Emery, 1889
• Myrmecina strigis Lin & Wu, 1998
• Myrmecina sulcata Emery, 1887
• Myrmecina taiwana Terayama, 1985
• Myrmecina transversa Emery, 1897
• Myrmecina undulata Emery, 1900
• Myrmecina urbanii Tiwari, 1994
• Myrmecina vidyae Tiwari, 1994
• Myrmecina wesselensis Shattuck, 2009

References

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Myrmecina". AntCat. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
2. "Genus: Myrmecina". AntWeb. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
3. S. O. Shattuck (2009). "A revision the Australian species of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2146: 1–21. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2146.1.1.

External links

• Media related to Myrmecina at Wikimedia Commons