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Genus: Prenolepis

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Subfamily: Formicinae Genus: Prenolepis

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 16 species, 6 subspecies

Fossil: 1 species

Prenolepis Mayr, 1861 PDF: 52 Type-species: Tapinoma nitens, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903 PDF: 325. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Type-species not Formica imparis, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1906b PDF: 134, repeated in Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 171 and Wheeler, 1922: 940.].
Prenolepis in Formicinae: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 52 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1862 PDF: 652 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 7 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1868c PDF: 32 [Formicidae].
Prenolepis in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 377 [Camponotidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 453 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 177.
Prenolepis in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Forel, 1886h PDF: 209.
Prenolepis in Camponotinae, Formicini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 165; Forel, 1895b PDF: 103; Emery, 1895l PDF: 772; Forel, 1899b: 125; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 143.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384.
Prenolepis in Camponotinae, Prenolepidini: Forel, 1912j PDF: 89; Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 117; Forel, 1917 PDF: 249; Arnold, 1922 PDF: 605.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Prenolepidini: Wheeler, 1922: 697; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 219; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Acanthomyopsini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 685.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Brachymyrmecini: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b PDF: 651; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b PDF: 101; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 258.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Lasiini: Emery, 1925d PDF: 224; Stitz, 1939: 379, Kempf, 1972b PDF: 209; Smith, 1979: 1444; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Jaffe, 1993: 14; Bolton, 1994: 50.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Lasius genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 296.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 23, 105.
Genus Prenolepis references
Roger, 1863b PDF: 10 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 451 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 7 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 71 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1870b PDF: 947 (all species key); Forel, 1878c PDF: 377 (diagnosis); André, 1882b: 203 (Europe & Algeria species key); Cresson, 1887: 257 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 177 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 326 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1910a PDF: 127 (Palaearctic species key); Arnold, 1922 PDF: 605 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 216, 697, 940 (diagnosis, subgenera key, Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 224 (diagnosis, catalogue); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 410 (North America species review); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 219 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 209 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1442 (North America catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 363 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 137 (China species key); Xu, 1995c PDF: 338 (Southern & Eastern Asia species key); Fontenla, 2000A PDF: 81 (Antilles Is species key); Zhou, 2001A PDF: 170 (China, Guangxi species key); Wang, W. & Wu, 2007: 721 (China species key); LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck, 2010A PDF: 129 (diagnosis).
Genus Prenolepis references
Roger, 1863b PDF: 10 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 451 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 7 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 71 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1870b PDF: 947 (all species key); Forel, 1878c PDF: 377 (diagnosis); André, 1882b: 203 (Europe & Algeria species key); Cresson, 1887: 257 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 177 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 326 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1910a PDF: 127 (Palaearctic species key); Arnold, 1922 PDF: 605 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 216, 697, 940 (diagnosis, subgenera key, Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 224 (diagnosis, catalogue); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 410 (North America species review); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 219 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 209 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1442 (North America catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 363 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 137 (China species key); Xu, 1995c PDF: 338 (Southern & Eastern Asia species key); Fontenla, 2000A PDF: 81 (Antilles Is species key); Zhou, 2001A PDF: 170 (China, Guangxi species key); Wang, W. & Wu, 2007: 721 (China species key); LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck, 2010A PDF: 129 (diagnosis).

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