Tanipone

Tanipone
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Tanipone Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Type species
Tanipone hirsuta Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Diversity[1]
10 species

Tanipone is a Malagasy genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.^[2][3]

Distribution

Endemic 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

• 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

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Tanipone". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
2. Bolton & Fisher 2012, p. 75
3. "Genus: Tanipone". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
4. Bolton & Fisher 2012, p. 5

• 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
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