Proceratium

Proceratium
Proceratium google worker, holotype specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Proceratiinae
Tribe: Proceratiini
Genus: Proceratium
Roger, 1863
Type species
Proceratium silaceum
Roger, 1863
Diversity[1]
82 species
Synonyms

Sysphingta Roger, 1863

Proceratium is a rare genus of ants in the subfamily Proceratiinae.[2] It is the type genus of the tribe Proceratiini, which in addition to Proceratium consists of two even rarer genera: the extant Discothyrea and the fossil genus Bradoponera.[3]

  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Proceratium". AntCat. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
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