List of ants of Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about 2 million species of arthropods found in the world, and still it is counting. So many new species are discover up to this time also. So it is very complicated and difficult to summarize the exact number of species found within a certain region.
Contents
1 Ants
1.1 Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
1.2 Subfamily: Aneuretinae
1.3 Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
1.4 Subfamily: Dorylinae
1.5 Subfamily: Ectatomminae
1.6 Subfamily: Formicinae
1.7 Subfamily: Leptanillinae
1.8 Subfamily: Myrmecinae
1.9 Subfamily: Ponerinae
1.10 Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae
2 See also
3 References
Ants
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Ants are social insects that can be found in terrestrial ecosystems. They are also very common in human settlements, as well as in forest floor. Well over 6000 species of ants were found and described, and new species are about to discover. Sri Lanka is home to 229 species of ants that included to 66 genera and 12 subfamilies. There are 102 endemic species in Sri Lanka, with 48.6% of endemism. One endemic genus Aneuretus is also included to the list. The following list is according to the Ants of Sri Lanka by Prof. R.K. Sriyani Dias 2014 comprehensive edition by Biodiversity Secretariat on Ministry of Environmental and Renewable Energy of Sri Lanka.[1]
Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
- Stigmatomma testaceum
Subfamily: Aneuretinae
Aneuretus simoni - Sri Lanka Relict Ant (endemic)
Aneuretus simoni - An endemic ant species of Sri Lanka
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
- Dolichoderus taprobanae
- Tapinoma indicum
- Tapinoma melanocephalum
- Technomyrmex albipes
Technomyrmex albipes - Known as "Kalu kumbiya" in Sri Lanka
- Technomyrmex bicolor
- Technomyrmex detorquens
- Technomyrmex elatior
- Technomyrmex horni
Subfamily: Dorylinae
- Aenictus aitkenii
- Aenictus biroi
- Aenictus ceylonicus
- Aenictus gracilis
- Aenictus pachycerus
- Aenictus porizonoides
- Cerapachys coecus
- Cerapachys fossulatus
- Cerapachys fragosus
- Cerapachys luteoviger
- Cerapachys typhlus
- Dorylus orientalis
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
- Gnamptogenys coxalis
Subfamily: Formicinae
- Acropyga acutiventris
- Acropyga rubescens
- Anoplolepis gracilipes
Anoplolepis gracilipes - Known as "Ambalaya" in Sri Lanka, is a troublesome species in houses
- Camponotus albipes
- Camponotus auriculatus
- Camponotus barbatus
- Camponotus ceylonicus
- Camponotus greeni
- Camponotus fletcheri
- Camponotus indeflexus
- Camponotus irritans
- Camponotus isabellae
- Camponotus latebrosus
- Camponotus maculatus
Camponotus mendax - ssp. integer
- Camponotus mitis
- Camponotus ominosus
- Camponotus rufoglaucus
Camponotus reticulatus - ssp. yerburyi
- Camponotus sericeus
- Camponotus sesquipedalis
- Camponotus simoni
Camponotus thraso - ssp. diogenes
- Camponotus varians
Camponotus variegatus - ssp. infuscoides, intrans
- Camponotus wedda
- Dolichoderus taprobanae
Lepisiota capensis - ssp. lunaris
- Myrmoteras ceylonicum
Nylanderia taylori - ssp. levis
- Nylanderia vagabunda
- Nylanderia yerburyi
Oecophylla smaragdina - A common ant species in Sri Lanka, commonly known as "Dimiya"
- Oecophylla smaragdina
- Paratrechina longicornis
- Plagiolepis pissina
- Polyrhachis aedipus
- Polyrhachis bugnioni
Polyrhachis convexa - ssp. isabellae
- Polyrhachis curvispina
- Polyrhachis exercita
- Polyrhachis gibbosa
Polyrhachis hippomanes - ssp. ceylonensis
- Polyrhachis horni
- Polyrhachis illaudata
- Polyrhachis jerdonii
- Polyrhachis nigra
- Polyrhachis punctillata
- Polyrhachis rastellata
- Polyrhachis rupicapra
- Polyrhachis scissa
- Polyrhachis sophocles
- Polyrhachis thrinax
Polyrhachis tibialis - ssp. pectita
- Polyrhachis xanthippe
- Polyrhachis yerburyi
- Prenolepis naoroji
- Pseudolasius isabellae
Subfamily: Leptanillinae
- Leptanilla besucheti
- Protanilla schoedli
Subfamily: Myrmecinae
- Acanthomyrmex luciolae
- Anillomyrma decamera
- Calyptomyrmex singalensis
- Calyptomyrmex tamil
- Calyptomyrmex vedda
Cardiocondyla emeryi - ssp. emeryi
- Cardiocondyla minutior
- Cardiocondyla nuda
- Carebara bruni
- Carebara butteli
- Carebara ceylonensis
- Carebara deponens
Carebara diversa - ssp. taprobanae
- Carebara escherichi
- Carebara nana
- Carebara pygmaea
- Carebara sinhala
- Cataulacus granulatus
- Cataulacus simoni
- Cataulacus taprobanae
- Crematogaster anthracina
- Crematogaster apicalis
- Crematogaster biroi
- Crematogaster brunnescens
- Crematogaster consternens
- Crematogaster desecta
Crematogaster dohrni - ssp. dohrni, gigas
- Crematogaster pellens
- Crematogaster ransonneti
- Crematogaster rogeri
- Crematogaster rogenhoferi
Crematogaster rothneyi - ssp. haputalensis
- Dilobocondyla didita
- Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus
- Meranoplus bicolor
- Meranoplus boltoni
- Meranoplus levis
- Meranoplus loebli
- Metapone greeni
- Metapone johni
- Monomorium consternens
- Monomorium floricola
- Monomorium pharaonis
- Monomorium latinode
- Monomorium subopacum
- Monomorium taprobanae
- Myrmicaria brunnea
- Paratopula ceylonica
- Pheidole barreleti
- Pheidole ceylonica
- Pheidole diffidens
- Pheidole gracilipes
- Pheidole horni
Pheidole latinoda - ssp. angustior, latinoda, peradeniyae
- Pheidole malinsii
- Pheidole megacephala
- Pheidole nietneri
- Pheidole noda
- Pheidole parva
- Pheidole pronotalis
- Pheidole rugosa
Pheidole spathifera - ssp. yerburyi
Pheidole sulcaticeps - ssp. sulcaticeps, vellicans
Pheidole templaria - ssp. euscrobata
- Pheidologeton diversus
- Recurvidris pickburni
- Rhopalomastix escherichi
- Solenopsis geminata
- Solenopsis nitens
- Stereomyrmex horni
- Strumigenys godeffroyi
- Strumigenys inopinata
- Strumigenys lewisi
- Strumigenys lyroessa
- Strumigenys veddha
- Tetramorium bicarinatum
- Tetramorium curvispinosum
- Tetramorium pacificum
- Tetramorium pilosum
- Tetramorium simillimum
- Tetramorium tonganum
- Tetramorium tortuosum
- Tetramorium transversarium
- Tetramorium yerburyi
- Trichomyrmex criniceps
- Trichomyrmex destructor
Trichomyrmex emeryi - ssp. laevior
- Trichomyrmex rogeri
- Tyrannomyrmex legatus
- Vollenhovia escherichi
Subfamily: Ponerinae
- Anochetus consultans
- Anochetus longifossatus
- Anochetus madaraszi
- Anochetus nietneri
- Anochetus pangens
- Anochetus yerburyi
- Bothroponera tesseronoda
- Brachyponera luteipes
- Brachyponera obscurans
Centromyrmex feae - ssp. ceylonicus
- Cryptopone testacea
- Diacamma ceylonense
- Diacamma indicum
- Diacamma rugosum
Harpegnathos saltator - ssp. taprobanae
- Hypoponera ceylonensis
- Hypoponera confinis
- Hypoponera ragusai
- Hypoponera taprobanae
- Leptogenys diminuta
- Leptogenys exudans
- Leptogenys falcigera
- Leptogenys hysterica
- Leptogenys meritans
- Leptogenys pruinosa
- Leptogenys peuqueti
- Leptogenys processionalis
- Leptogenys yerburyi
- Leptogenys peuqueti
- Mesoponera melanaria
- Myopias amblyops
- Myopopone castanea
- Odontomachus simillimus
- Pachycondyla luteipes
- Platythyrea parallela
- Platythyrea clypeata
- Pseudoneoponera rufipes
Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae
- Tetraponera allaborans
Tetraponera nigra - var. insularis
- Tetraponera rufonigra
The following species were also described from Sri Lanka, but their true identities are currently unknown due to lack of experiments.
- Formica fuscicauda
- Formica subpicea
- Myrmica obscurata
- Myrmica pilinodis
See also
Ants of Sri Lanka, a book by Dr. Shriyani Dias
References
^ Dias, Sriyani R.K. (2014). Ants of Sri Lanka. Battaramulla: Biodiversity Secretariat on Ministry of Environmental and Renewable Energy of Sri Lanka. p. 273. ISBN 978-955-0033-73-7..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
- http://www.kln.ac.lk/science/antDB/
- http://www.lakdasun.org/forum/index.php?topic=1887.0
- http://www.antweb.org/
- http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka
