Prenolepidini

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Prenolepidini
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Lasiini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Prenolepidini
Forel, 1912
Type genus
Prenolepis

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Lasiini.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • PRENOLEPIDINI [junior synonym of Lasiini]
    • Prenolepidii Forel, 1912i: 89. Type-genus: Prenolepis Mayr, 1861: 52.

Taxonomic History

  • Prenolepidini as tribe of Camponotinae: Forel, 1912i: 89 [Prenolepidii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 100 [Prenolepidini]; Emery, 1916b: 237 [Prenolepidini]; Forel, 1917: 249 [Prenolepidini]; Arnold, 1922: 605 [Prenolepidini].
  • Prenolepidini as tribe of Formicinae: Bondroit, 1918: 18 [Prenolepidini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 692 [Prenolepidini]; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 214; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.
  • Prenolepidini as junior synonym of Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 2003: 22, 100.
  • Prenolepidini as junior synonym of Lasiini: Emery, 1925b: 212; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1994: 50; Ward, et al. 2016: 347.

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