Tetheamyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Tetheamyrma subspongia.[1] The genus is known only from two workers collected in a leaf litter sample in eastern Malaysia.[2]
Tetheamyrma | |
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Tetheamyrma subspongia worker | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Tetheamyrma Bolton, 1991 |
Species: | T. subspongia
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Binomial name | |
Tetheamyrma subspongia Bolton, 1991
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References
edit- ^ "Genus: Tetheamyrma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Bolton, B. (1991). "New myrmicine genera from the Oriental Region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Syst. Entomol. 16: 1–13. Bibcode:1991SysEn..16....1B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1991.tb00571.x.
External links
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