Taxonomic notes on the genus Protanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from Taiwan
This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Hsu, Po-Wei, Hsu, Feng-Chuan, Hsiao, Yun, Lin, Chung-Chi (2017): Taxonomic notes on the genus Protanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from Taiwan. Zootaxa 4268 (1): 117-130, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.1.7
Abstract
A new species of Protanilla Taylor, 1990, P. jongi sp. nov., from Taiwan is described and illustrated, along with a supplementary description of the queen morphology of P. lini Terayama, 2009 and biological notes of Protanilla species. Furthermore, Furcotanilla Xu, 2012 is considered a junior synonym of Protanilla on reanalysis of purported diagnostic characters. A key to the world fauna of genus Protanilla based on the worker caste is provided.
Key words: Leptanillinae, Protanilla, Furcotanilla, new species, new synonym, key to species