Tanipone is a Malagasy genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.[2][3]
| Tanipone | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorylinae |
| Genus: | Tanipone Bolton & Fisher, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| Tanipone hirsuta Bolton & Fisher, 2012
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 10 species | |
Distribution
editEndemic to Madagascar, species of Tanipone are predominantly terrestrial to subarboreal, being found as ground foragers in leaf litter, under stones, in rotten stumps and in rotten logs. Just as commonly workers have been captured on low vegetation, in living and dead stems above the ground and in rot pockets in tree trunks.[4]
Species
edit- Tanipone aglandula Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone aversa Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone cognata Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone hirsuta Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone maculata Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone pilosa Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone scelesta Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone subpilosa Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone varia Bolton & Fisher, 2012
- Tanipone zona Bolton & Fisher, 2012
References
edit- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Tanipone". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- ^ Bolton & Fisher 2012, p. 75.
- ^ "Genus: Tanipone". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ Bolton & Fisher 2012, p. 5.
This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under a copyright license that allows anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the materials in any form for any purpose: Bolton, Barry; Fisher, Brian L. (2012), "Taxonomy of the cerapachyine ant genera Simopone Forel, Vicinopone gen. n. and Tanipone gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." (PDF), Zootaxa, 3283: 1–101, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3283.1.1 Please check the source for the exact licensing terms.
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