Biology:Pilotrochus

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Short description: Genus of ants

Pilotrochus
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Pilotrochus besmerus worker from Madagascar
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Pilotrochus
Brown, 1978
Species:
P. besmerus
Binomial name
Pilotrochus besmerus
Brown, 1978

Pilotrochus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Pilotrochus besmerus.[1] It is known from Madagascar .[2]

The name of the genus is derived from Greek plios, "hair" + trochos, "wheel"; the specific name is from Latin bes, "eight of twelve" + Greek meros, "part", referencing the eight-segmented antennae.[2]

References

  1. "Genus: Pilotrochus". AntWeb. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Pilotrochus&rank=genus&project=allantwebants. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Brown, W. L. Jr. (1977). "An aberrant new genus of myrmicine ant from Madagascar". Psyche 84 (3–4): 218–224. doi:10.1155/1977/41590. 

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