
Myrmecina
    
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        Myrmecina is a genus of ant
s in family Formicidae. It contains 46 species distributed in North America, Europe, northern Africa, India east, Korea, Japan and Australia :
Ant
Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae  and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than...
s in family Formicidae. It contains 46 species distributed in North America, Europe, northern Africa, India east, Korea, Japan and Australia :
- Myrmecina alpina Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina amamiana Terayama, 1996
 - Myrmecina americana Emery, 1895
 - Myrmecina atlantis Santschi, 1939
 - Myrmecina australis G. C. Wheeler & J. Wheeler, 1973
 - Myrmecina bandarensis Forel, 1913
 - Myrmecina brevicornis Emery, 1897
 - Myrmecina butteli Forel, 1913
 - Myrmecina cacabau Mann, 1921
 - Myrmecina curtisi Donisthorpe, 1949
 - Myrmecina curvispina Zhou, Huang & Ma, 2008
 - Myrmecina difficulta Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina eruga Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina flava Terayama, 1985
 - Myrmecina graminicola (Latreille, 1802)
 - Myrmecina guangxiensis Zhou, 2001
 - Myrmecina hamula Zhou, Huang & Ma, 2008
 - Myrmecina harrisoni Brown, 1967
 - Myrmecina inaequala Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina kaigong Terayama, 2009
 - Myrmecina mandibularis Viehmeyer, 1914
 - Myrmecina melonii Rigato, 1999
 - Myrmecina modesta Mann, 1919
 - Myrmecina nesaea W. M. Wheeler, 1924
 - Myrmecina nipponica W. M. Wheeler, 1906
 - Myrmecina opaciventris Emery, 1897
 - Myrmecina pauca Zhou, Huang & Ma, 2008
 - Myrmecina pilicornis F. Smith, 1858
 - Myrmecina polita Emery, 1897
 - Myrmecina pumila Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina punctata Emery, 1897
 - Myrmecina rugosa Forel, 1902
 - Myrmecina ryukyuensis Terayama, 1996
 - Myrmecina sauteri Forel, 1912
 - Myrmecina semipolita Forel, 1905
 - Myrmecina sicula André, 1882
 - Myrmecina silvalaeva Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina silvampla Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina silvangula Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina silvarugosa Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina silvatransversa Shattuck, 2009
 - Myrmecina sinensis W. M. Wheeler, 1921
 - Myrmecina striata Emery, 1889
 - Myrmecina strigis Lin & Wu, 1998
 - Myrmecina sulcata Emery, 1887
 - Myrmecina taiwana Terayama, 1985
 - Myrmecina transversa Emery, 1897
 - Myrmecina undulata Emery, 1900
 - Myrmecina urbanii Tiwari, 1994
 - Myrmecina vidyae Tiwari, 1994
 - Myrmecina wesselensisMyrmecina wesselensisMyrmecina wesselensis is a species of ant discovered and described by Shattuck, S. O. in 2009. This species is known from a single worker collected foraging on the ground at night from the Wessel Islands, Northern Territory....
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