Pilotrochus
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Pilotrochus | |
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Pilotrochus besmerus worker from Madagascar | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Pilotrochus Brown, 1978 |
Species: | P. besmerus
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Binomial name | |
Pilotrochus besmerus Brown, 1978
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Pilotrochus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Pilotrochus besmerus.[1] It is known from Madagascar.[2]
The name of the genus is derived from Greek plios, "hair" + trochos, "wheel"; the specific name is from Latin bes, "eight of twelve" + Greek meros, "part", referencing the eight-segmented antennae.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Genus: Pilotrochus". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ a b Brown, W. L. Jr. (1977). "An aberrant new genus of myrmicine ant from Madagascar". Psyche. 84 (3–4): 218–224. doi:10.1155/1977/41590.
External links
[edit]Media related to Pilotrochus besmerus at Wikimedia Commons