Asphinctanilloides

Asphinctanilloides
A. amazona worker from Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Asphinctanilloides Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
Type species
Asphinctanilloides anae Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
Diversity[1]
3 species

Asphinctanilloides is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.^[2] The three known species are associated with lowland Amazon and Atlantic coastal rainforest.^[3] The geographical distribution of the sister genus Amyrmex, known currently from the Amazon basin of Brazil and from northern Argentina, suggests that Asphinctanilloides may be a junior synonym of Amyrmex.^[4]

Species

• Asphinctanilloides amazona Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
• Asphinctanilloides anae Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999
• Asphinctanilloides manauara Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999

References

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Asphinctanilloides". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
2. "Genus: Asphinctanilloides". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
3. Ward & Brady 2009, p. 52
4. Ward & Brady 2009, p. 53

• Ward, P.S; Brady, S.G. (2009), "Rediscovery of the ant genus Amyrmex Kuznetsov (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and its transfer from Dolichoderinae to Leptanilloidinae." (PDF), Zootaxa, 2063: 46–54
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External links

• Media related to Asphinctanilloides at Wikimedia Commons