| Notostigma | |
|---|---|
| |
| Notostigma foreli worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Melophorini |
| Genus: | Notostigma Emery, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Camponotus carazzii | |
| Diversity1 | |
| 2 species | |
Notostigma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.2 Its two species are known only from Australia. Workers are nocturnal and forage solitarily.3 Notostigma was first described by Emery (1920), when he erected the new genus for three species of carpenter ants (Camponotus).4
Species
- Notostigma carazzii (Emery, 1895)
- Notostigma foreli (Emery, 1920)
References
References
- Bolton, B. (2014). "Notostigma". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- "Genus: Notostigma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- Taylor, R. W. (1992). "Nomenclature and Distribution of Some Australian and New Guinean Ants of the Subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Australian Journal of Entomology. 31: 57–69. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1992.tb00458.x.
- Emery, C. (1920). "Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres". Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) (in French). 8: 229–260.