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Genus: Prenolepis   Mayr, 1861 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 13 species

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 PDF: 7 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1868c PDF: 32 [Formicidae].
Prenolepis in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 377 [Camponotidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 453 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 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: 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: 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; Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016 PDF: 347.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Lasius genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 296.
Prenolepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 23, 105.
Genus Prenolepis references
Roger, 1863b: 10 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 451 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 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 PDF: 257 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 177 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 326 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1910a PDF: 127 (Palaearctic species key); Arnold, 1922: 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); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2012 PDF (Indian species review, key); Williams & LaPolla, 2016 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.1 PDF: 201 (revision, diagnosis, morphological phylogeny)

Taxon Page Images:



Deep inside a nest of Prenolepis imparis, young worker ants are swollen with liquid food. These replete ants act as living storage containers and allow the colonies to persist through dearth periods. Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, USA.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Palearctic bioregions.

Indomalaya Region: Asia, Borneo, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Perak, Philippines, Sabah, Shan, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uttarakhand, Vietnam, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Seychelles
Nearctic Region: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North America, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin
Neotropical Region: Americas, Central America, Mexico, Panama, Sinaloa, Veracruz
Palearctic Region: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Buzău, China, Crete, Croatia, Dobrich, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Georgia, Greece, Himachal Pradesh, Hungary, Ionía Nísia, Italy, Japan, Kaliningrad, Kentrikí Makedonía, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Southern Europe, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vidin, Western Asia, Western Europe

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Prenolepis   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 85-86, (download) 85-86 6734
Prenolepis   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 215-216, (download) 215-216 20597
Prenolepis   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 81-82, (download) 81-82 6734
Prenolepis   Emery, C., 1894, Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud aux îles Séchelles (mars, avril, mai 1892). 2 e mémoire. Formicides., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 63, pp. 67-72: 72, (download) 72 3771
Prenolepis   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Prenolepis   Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 697, (download) 697 4445
Prenolepis   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 31, (download) 31 21008
Prenolepis   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 80, (download) 80 6734


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