Ravavy indicus

Ravavy indicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Ravavy
Species:	R. indicus
Binomial name
	Ravavy indicus; (Forel, 1895)
Subspecies
	Ravavy indicus timidus (Santschi, 1928);

Ravavy indicus is a species of ant in the genus Ravavy. Described by Forel in 1895, the species is endemic to various countries in Asia.¹ Originally described in Tapinoma, it was transferred to the genus Ravavy in 2025.²

References

Ghosh, S.N. & Sheela, S. 2008. On a collection of Formicidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) from Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India, with new records of one rare genus and a rare species. Asian Myrmecology, 2, 99-102.
Seifert, Bernhard (7 July 2025). "Treachery pigmentation pattern leads to misidentification: Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius), Tapinoma pygmaeum (Dufour) and Tapinoma jandai sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". Contributions to Entomology. 75 (2): 245–252. doi:10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e154879. Retrieved 6 April 2026.

[1] Ghosh, S.N. & Sheela, S. 2008. On a collection of Formicidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) from Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India, with new records of one rare genus and a rare species. Asian Myrmecology, 2, 99-102.

[seifert-2025-2] Seifert, Bernhard (7 July 2025). "Treachery pigmentation pattern leads to misidentification: Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius), Tapinoma pygmaeum (Dufour) and Tapinoma jandai sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". Contributions to Entomology. 75 (2): 245–252. doi:10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e154879. Retrieved 6 April 2026.

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