Anonychomyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.[2]
| Anonychomyrma Temporal range:
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| Anonychomyrma gilberti worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Anonychomyrma Donisthorpe, 1947 |
| Type species | |
| Anonychomyrma myrmex Donisthorpe, 1947
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 26 species | |
Distribution and habitat
editThe 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 trees, with colonies consisting of 500 to tens of thousands individuals.[3]
Species
edit- 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
edit- ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Anonychomyrma". AntCat. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ^ "Genus: Anonychomyrma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ Shattuck, S. (2000). Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-0-643-06659-5.
External links
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