| Pilotrochus | |
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| Pilotrochus besmerus worker from Madagascar | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Pilotrochus Brown, 1978 |
| Species: | P. besmerus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pilotrochus besmerus Brown, 1978
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Pilotrochus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Pilotrochus besmerus.1 It is known from Madagascar.2
The name of the genus is derived from Greek plios, "hair" + trochos, "wheel"; the specific name is from Latin bes, "eight of twelve" + Greek meros, "part", referencing the eight-segmented antennae.2
References
References
- "Genus: Pilotrochus". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- Brown, W. L. Jr. (1977). "An aberrant new genus of myrmicine ant from Madagascar". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 84 (3–4): 218–224. doi:10.1155/1977/41590.