Promyopias | |
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Promyopias silvestrii worker from the Ivory Coast | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Genus: | Promyopias Santschi, 1914 |
Species: | P. silvestrii
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Binomial name | |
Promyopias silvestrii (Santschi, 1914)
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Synonyms | |
Myopias silvestrii Santschi, 1914 (type species) |
Promyopias is an Afrotropical genus of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Promyopias silvestrii.[1] The rare genus has previously been regarded as a separate genus, as a subgenus and as a provisional synonymy, but was reinstated at genus-rank in 2008.