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Prenolepis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Prenolepis was named by Mayr (1861). It is extant.

It was assigned to Prenolepidini by Wheeler (1915); to Formicidae by Carpenter (1992); to Plagiolepidini by Bolton (2003) and Bolton (2012); and to Lasiini by Ward et al. (2016) and Boudinot et al. (2022).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1861Prenolepis Mayr p. 26
1915Prenolepis Wheeler
1992Prenolepis Carpenter
2003Prenolepis Bolton p. 23
2012Prenolepis Bolton
2016Prenolepis Ward et al. p. 347
2022Prenolepis Boudinot et al. p. 134

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
Antennoclypeata
subfamilyFormicinae
tribeLasiini
genusPrenolepisMayr 1861

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Prenolepis Mayr 1861
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Prenolepis henschei Mayr 1868
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available