Alloformica
Alloformica aberrans worker from Uzbekistan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Alloformica
Dlussky, 1969
Type species
Formica aberrans
Diversity[1]
4 species

Alloformica is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.[2] The genus was first described as a subgenus of Proformica by Dlussky (1969), later to be synonymized under Proformica by Brown (1973), and finally revived and raised to genus rank by Dlussky & Fedoseeva (1988). Its species are known only from a few localities.[3][4]

Species

  • Alloformica aberrans (Mayr, 1877)
  • Alloformica flavicornis (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926)
  • Alloformica nitidior (Forel, 1904)
  • Alloformica obscurior Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990

References

  1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Alloformica". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. "Genus: Alloformica". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. (1990). Ants of Turkmenistan (in Russian). Ylym Press. pp. 273 pp.
  4. Agosti, D. (1994b). "The phylogeny of the ant tribe Formicini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with the description of a new genus". Systematic Entomology. 19 (2): 93–117. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1994.tb00581.x. S2CID 83590673.


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