# Prenolepis

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{{short description|Genus of ants}}
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{{Automatic_taxobox
| image             = Prenolepis imparis casent0005429 profile 1.jpg
| image_caption     = ''Prenolepis imparis'' worker
| taxon             = Prenolepis
| authority   = [Mayr](/source/Gustav_Mayr), 1861
| type_species      = ''[Tapinoma nitens](/source/Prenolepis_nitens)''
| type_species_authority = (Mayr, 1853)
| diversity_link    = #Species
| diversity         = 20 species
| diversity_ref     = <ref name="AntCat">{{AntCat|429210|Prenolepis|2021|accessdate=31 October 2021}}</ref>
}}

thumb|''Prenolepis imparis'', male
'''''Prenolepis''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [ant](/source/ant)s in the [subfamily](/source/subfamily) [Formicinae](/source/Formicinae).<ref name="AWPrenolepis"/> Most species are found in southeastern Asia and southern [China](/source/China), but the genus has a wide distribution with species known from North America, southern Europe, [Anatolia](/source/Anatolia), [Cuba](/source/Cuba), [Haiti](/source/Haiti), and [West Africa](/source/West_Africa).<ref name="LaPolla_et_al_2010"/>

==Species==
*''[Prenolepis angularis](/source/Prenolepis_angularis)'' <small>Zhou, 2001</small>
*''[Prenolepis cyclopia](/source/Prenolepis_cyclopia)'' <small>Chen & Zhou, 2018</small>
*''[Prenolepis darlena](/source/Prenolepis_darlena)'' <small>Williams & LaPolla, 2016</small>
*''[Prenolepis dugasi](/source/Prenolepis_dugasi)'' <small>Forel, 1911</small>
*''[Prenolepis fisheri](/source/Prenolepis_fisheri)'' <small>Bharti & Wachkoo, 2012</small>
*''[Prenolepis fustinoda](/source/Prenolepis_fustinoda)'' <small>Williams & LaPolla, 2016</small>
*†''[Prenolepis henschei](/source/Prenolepis_henschei)'' <small>Mayr, 1868</small>
*''[Prenolepis imparis](/source/Prenolepis_imparis)'' <small>(Say, 1836)</small>
*''[Prenolepis jacobsoni](/source/Prenolepis_jacobsoni)'' <small>Crawley, 1923</small>
*''[Prenolepis jerdoni](/source/Prenolepis_jerdoni)'' <small>Emery, 1893</small>
*''[Prenolepis lakekamu](/source/Prenolepis_lakekamu)'' <small>Williams & LaPolla, 2018</small>
*''[Prenolepis mediops](/source/Prenolepis_mediops)'' <small>Williams & LaPolla, 2016</small>
*''[Prenolepis melanogaster](/source/Prenolepis_melanogaster)'' <small>Emery, 1893</small>
*''[Prenolepis naoroji](/source/Prenolepis_naoroji)'' <small>Forel, 1902</small>
*''[Prenolepis nepalensis](/source/Prenolepis_nepalensis)'' <small>Williams & LaPolla, 2018</small>
*''[Prenolepis nitens](/source/Prenolepis_nitens)'' <small>(Mayr, 1853)</small>
*''[Prenolepis quinquedenta](/source/Prenolepis_quinquedenta)'' <small>Chen & Zhou, 2018</small>
*''[Prenolepis shanialena](/source/Prenolepis_shanialena)'' <small>Williams & LaPolla, 2016</small>
*''[Prenolepis striata](/source/Prenolepis_striata)'' <small>Chen & Zhou, 2018</small>
*''[Prenolepis subopaca](/source/Prenolepis_subopaca)'' <small>Emery, 1900</small>

==References==
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<ref name="AWPrenolepis">{{cite web |url=http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Prenolepis&rank=genus&project=allantwebants |title= Genus: Prenolepis |website=antweb.org |publisher=[AntWeb](/source/AntWeb) |access-date=23 September 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="LaPolla_et_al_2010">{{cite journal |last1=LaPolla |first1=John S. |last2=Brady |first2=Seán G.|last3=Shattuck |first3=Steven O. |date=2010 |title=Phylogeny and taxonomy of the ''Prenolepis'' genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |journal=[Systematic Entomology](/source/Systematic_Entomology) |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=118–131 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00492.x|bibcode=2010SysEn..35..118L |s2cid=86659687 }}</ref>
}}

==External links==
*{{commonscat-inline|Prenolepis|''Prenolepis''}}

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Category:Formicinae
Category:Ant genera

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