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Genus: Paratrechina   Motschoulsky, 1863 

Classification:

Current Valid Name:



Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 5 valid species

Paratrechina Motschoulsky, 1863: 13. Type-species: Paratrechina currens, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 170. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Paratrechina as genus: all authors except Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 177; Forel, 1899h PDF: 125; Wheeler, 1922: 940.
Genus Paratrechina catalogues
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 177 (as part of Prenolepis); Emery, 1925d PDF: 216; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 218 (Asia); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 182 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1442 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 129 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 52 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 365 (Neotropical catalogue); Bolton, 1995b: 312; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 358 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).
Genus Paratrechina references
André, 1882c PDF: 203 (Europe & Algeria species key); Forel, 1894c PDF: 406 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Emery, 1925d PDF: 216 (diagnosis); Finzi, 1936 PDF: 191 (Egypt species key); Buren, 1944a PDF: 295 (U.S.A., Iowa species key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 404 (Nearctic species key); Kusnezov, 1956a PDF: 32 (Argentina species key); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 347 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Alayo, 1974 PDF: 26 (Cuba species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 556 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Trager, 1984b PDF: 65 (Nearctic species revision, key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 64 (U.S.A., Nevada species key); Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 298 (Saudi Arabia species key); Morisita et al., 1991: 20 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 150 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 369 (Saudi Arabia species key); Terayama, 1999c PDF: 50 (Japan species key); Shattuck, 1999: 104 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001a PDF: 177 (China, Guangxi species key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 354 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 210 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 104 (south-western Australia species key); LaPolla et al., 2010a PDF: 127 (diagnosis, synopsis); LaPolla et al., 2013 10.3897/JHR.35.5628 PDF: 71 (review), 73 (diagnosis), 75 (all species key); LaPolla & Fisher, 2014b PDF: 38 (diagnosis), 41 (all species key); Baccaro et al., 2015 10.5281/zenodo.32912 PDF: 190 (genus in Brazil); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 356 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 167 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019 PDF: 738 (Colombia species); Borowiec & Salata, 2022 PDF: 244 (diagnosis). [Note: prior to 2010 Paratrechina references also include Nylanderia and Paraparatrechina.]

Taxon Page Images:



Paratrechina longicornis - black crazy ant. Along a sun-soaked beach on a Panamanian island, ants drink from nectaries on the underside of a leaf. Many plants attract ants with nectaries, and the ants in return help remove the plant's herbivorous pests. Isla Contadora, Panama.
Image © Alex Wild. // Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europa Island, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grande Glorieuse, Guinea, Ile du Lys, Ivory Coast, Juan de Nova Island, Kenya, Libya, Macaronesia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Americas: Anguilla, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, Venezuela
    Asia: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Island, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen
    Europe: Balearic Islands, Belgium, Estonia, France, Malta, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom
    Oceania: Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Indomalaya, Malagasy

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Paratrechina   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 29, (download) 29 21367
Paratrechina   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 30, (download) 30 21008
Paratrechina   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 29, (download) 29 21367
Paratrechina   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 29, (download) 29 21367
Paratrechina   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Paratrechina   Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61: 46, (download) 46 21622
Paratrechina   Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 108-110, (download) 108-110 6175
Paratrechina   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 29, (download) 29 21367


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