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Genus of ants

Petalomyrmex

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Plagiolepidini
Genus:	Petalomyrmex Snelling, 1979
Species:	P. phylax
Binomial name
*Petalomyrmex phylax* Snelling, 1979

Petalomyrmex (from Greek petalos, "flattened" + myrmex, "ant") is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. It contains the single species Petalomyrmex phylax, known only from Cameroon. The genus is closely related to Aphomomyrmex.

References

"Genus: Petalomyrmex". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
Snelling, R. R. (1979). "Aphomomyrmex and a related new genus of arboreal African ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Contributions in Science (Los Angeles). 316: 1–8.

Taxon identifiers
Petalomyrmex	Wikidata: Q14947859 Wikispecies: Petalomyrmex CoL: 6LXP EoL: 58622 GBIF: 1320033 iNaturalist: 637567 IRMNG: 1045036 ITIS: 573983 NCBI: 46640 Open Tree of Life: 817226
Petalomyrmex phylax	Wikidata: Q14084030 CoL: 4FCNJ EoL: 460356 GBIF: 1320034 iNaturalist: 1188517 IRMNG: 10959063 ITIS: 577420 NCBI: 46641 Open Tree of Life: 817225

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