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Santschiella

Santschiella is an Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. It contains the single species Santschiella kohli, described by Forel in 1916 from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The genus is known only from workers, measuring about 3 mm in length and with large eyes. Forel (1917) placed Santschiella in its own tribe, Santschiellini, where it remained until Bolton (2003) moved it to Gesomyrmecini.

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Santschiella
Santschiella kohli worker from Gabon
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Santschiellini
Forel, 1917
Genus: Santschiella
Forel, 1916
Species:
S. kohli
Binomial name
Santschiella kohli
Forel, 1916

Santschiella is an Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.1 It contains the single species Santschiella kohli, described by Forel in 1916 from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The genus is known only from workers, measuring about 3 mm in length and with large eyes.2 Forel (1917) placed Santschiella in its own tribe, Santschiellini, where it remained until Bolton (2003) moved it to Gesomyrmecini.34

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  1. "Genus: Santschiella". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. Forel, A. (1916). "Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc". Revue suisse de Zoologie (in French). 24 (5): 397–460. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.4645.
  3. Forel, A. (1917). "Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis". Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (in French). 51: 229–253.
  4. Bolton, B. (2003). "Synopsis and classification of Formicidae". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 71: 370. ISBN 1-887988-15-7.
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