Checklist of Nylanderia species

The following species and subspecies belong to the genus Nylanderia. Synonyms are listed under their senior names. For valid names only see Nylanderia species and for distribution information see Nylanderia species by Country.

A
amblyops (Forel, 1892) (Madagascar)

amblyops rubescens (Forel, 1892) (Madagascar)

amia (Forel, 1913) (Japan, Taiwan)

anthracina (Roger, 1863) (Cuba, Greater Antilles)

arenivaga (Wheeler, W.M., 1905) (Mexico, United States)

assimilis (Jerdon, 1851) (India)

austroccidua (Trager, 1984) (Costa Rica, Mexico, United States)

B
birmana (Forel, 1902) (China, India, Myanmar)

birmana hodgsoni (Forel, 1902) (Myanmar)

boltoni LaPolla & Fisher, 2011 (Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania)

bourbonica (Forel, 1886) (Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, China, Cuba, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, India, Kenya, Krakatau Islands, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Island, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Pitcairn, Réunion, Saint Helena, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, United Republic of Tanzania, United States, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna Islands)

• Prenolepis bourbonica bengalensis Forel, 1894

• Prenolepis bourbonica hawaiensis Forel, 1899

• Prenolepis bourbonica skottsbergi Wheeler, W.M., 1922

bourbonica farquharensis (Forel, 1907) (Madagascar, Seychelles)

bourbonica ngasiyana (Forel, 1907) (Comoros)

brasiliensis (Mayr, 1862) (Brazil)

braueri (Mayr, 1868) (Australia)

braueri donisthorpei (Forel, 1908) (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

brevisetula LaPolla & Fisher, 2011 (Cameroun, Central African Republic, Gabon, Ivory Coast)

bruesii (Wheeler, W.M., 1903) (Mexico, United States)

burgesi (Trager, 1984) (Peru)

C
caeciliae (Forel, 1899) (Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago)

caeciliae elevata (Forel, 1908) (Costa Rica, Peru)

clandestina (Mayr, 1870) (Indonesia, Micronesia (Federated States of))

colchica (Pisarski, 1960) (Georgia)

comorensis (Forel, 1907) (Comoros, Mayotte)

concinna (Trager, 1984) (United States)

D
darlingtoni Wheeler, W.M., 1936 (Greater Antilles, Haiti)

deceptrix Messer, Cover & LaPolla, 2016 (United States)

dichroa Wheeler, W.M., 1934 (Solomon Islands)

• Nylanderia consuta Wheeler, W.M., 1935

dispar (Forel, 1909) (Guatemala)

docilis (Forel, 1908) (Brazil, Paraguay)

dodo (Donisthorpe, 1946) (Mauritius)

dugasi (Forel, 1911) (Vietnam)

F
faisonensis (Forel, 1922) (United States)

flavipes (Smith, F., 1874) (China, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Iberian Peninsula, Iran, Japan, Niue, Republic of Korea, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United States)

formosae (Forel, 1912) (China, Taiwan)

fulva (Mayr, 1862) (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, Suriname, United States, Uruguay)

• Prenolepis fulva fumata Forel, 1909

fulva biolleyi (Forel, 1908) (Costa Rica)

fulva cubana (Santschi, 1930) (Cuba, Greater Antilles)

fulva fumatipennis (Forel, 1915) (Argentina)

fulva incisa (Forel, 1908) (Costa Rica)

fulva longiscapa (Forel, 1908) (Costa Rica)

fulva nesiotis (Wheeler, W.M., 1919) (Ecuador, Galapagos Islands)

G
glabrior (Forel, 1902) (Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Solomon Islands)

goeldii (Forel, 1912) (Brazil)

gracilis (Forel, 1892) (Madagascar)

guanyin (Terayama, 2009) (Taiwan)

guatemalensis (Forel, 1885) (Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greater Antilles, Grenada, Guatemala, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, United States)

• Prenolepis guatemalensis antillana Forel, 1893

guatemalensis cocoensis (Forel, 1902) (Costa Rica)

guatemalensis itinerans (Forel, 1901) (Brazil, Ecuador, Greater Antilles, Haiti)

gulinensis (Zhang & Zheng, 2002) (China)

H
helleri (Viehmeyer, 1914) (New Guinea)

himalayana Wachkoo & Bharti, 2015 (India)

hubrechti (Emery, 1922) (Indonesia)

humbloti (Forel, 1891) (Madagascar)

hystrix (Trager, 1984) (Mexico, United States)

I
impolita LaPolla & Fisher, 2011 (Angola, Central African Republic, Gabon, Ghana)

incallida (Santschi, 1915) (Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, São Tomé & Principe)

• Paratrechina arlesi Bernard, 1953

indica (Forel, 1894) (Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Nicobar Island, Sri Lanka)

integera (Zhou, 2001) (China)

J
jaegerskioeldi (Mayr, 1904) (Balearic Islands, Benin, Canary Islands, Central African Republic, Egypt, Greece, Guinea, Iberian Peninsula, Israel, Kenya, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates)

• Paratrechina weissi nimba Bernard, 1953

• Prenolepis jaegerskioeldi borcardi Santschi, 1908

• Prenolepis jaegerskioeldi zelotypa Santschi, 1915

• Prenolepis traegaordhi Forel, 1904

• Prenolepis weissi Santschi, 1911

johannae (Forel, 1912) (Colombia)

johannae dibullana (Forel, 1912) (Colombia)

K
kraepelini (Forel, 1905) (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia)

L
laevigata (Mackay, W.P., 1998) (Mexico)

lepida (Santschi, 1915) (Angola, Cameroun, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, São Tomé & Principe, Uganda)

• Paratrechina grisoni Forel, 1916

• Paratrechina grisoni fuscula Menozzi, 1942

lietzi (Forel, 1908) (Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname)

luteafra LaPolla & Fisher, 2011 (Cameroun, Gabon)

M
madagascarensis (Forel, 1886) (Comoros, Mayotte, Seychelles)

madagascarensis ellisii (Forel, 1891) (Madagascar, Mayotte)

madagascarensis rufescens (Wheeler, W.M., 1922) (Seychelles)

madagascarensis sechellensis (Emery, 1894) (Seychelles)

magnella Kallal & LaPolla, 2012 (United States)

manni (Donisthorpe, 1941) (Solomon Islands)

mendica (Menozzi, 1942) (Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea)

mexicana (Forel, 1899) (Mexico)

microps (Smith, M.R., 1937) (Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico)

mixta (Forel, 1897) (Seychelles)

myops (Mann, 1920) (Cuba, Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico)

• Paratrechina troglodytes Weber, 1934

N
natalensis (Forel, 1915) (Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

nodifera (Mayr, 1870) (Bolivia, Colombia)

nubatama (Terayama, 1999) (Japan)

nuggeti (Donisthorpe, 1941) (New Guinea)

O
obscura (Mayr, 1862) (Australia, Borneo, Indonesia, Lord Howe Island, Malaysia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island)

obscura bismarckensis (Forel, 1901) (New Guinea, Réunion, Solomon Islands)

obscura celebensis (Karavaiev, 1933) (Indonesia, Sulawesi)

obscura minor (Karavaiev, 1933) (Indonesia)

obscura papuana (Forel, 1901) (New Guinea)

ogasawarensis (Terayama, 1999) (Japan)

opisopthalmia (Zhou & Zheng, 1998) (China, Vietnam)

otome (Terayama, 1999) (Japan)

P
parvula (Mayr, 1870) (United States)

pearsei Wheeler, W.M., 1938 (Mexico)

perminuta (Buckley, 1866)

phantasma (Trager, 1984) (United States)

picta (Wheeler, W.M., 1927) (China, Vietnam)

pieli (Santschi, 1928) (China)

pubens (Forel, 1893) (Anguilla, Barbados, Cuba, Ecuador, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, United States)

Q
querna Kallal & LaPolla, 2012 (United States)

R
rosae (Forel, 1902) (Australia)

ryukyuensis (Terayama, 1999) (Japan)

S
scintilla LaPolla & Fisher, 2011 (Ivory Coast)

sharpii (Forel, 1899) (China, Hawaii)

sikorae (Forel, 1892) (Madagascar)

silvestrii (Emery, 1906) (Argentina, Uruguay)

silvestrii kuenzleri (Forel, 1909) (Argentina)

silvula LaPolla & Fisher, 2011 (Kenya)

simpliciuscula (Emery, 1896) (Indonesia)

sindbadi (Pisarski, 1960) (Iraq, Israel)

smythiesii (Forel, 1894) (India)

staudingeri (Forel, 1912) (Peru)

steeli (Forel, 1910) (New Guinea)

steinheili (Forel, 1893) (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela)

steinheili minuta (Forel, 1893) (Colombia, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles)

stigmatica (Mann, 1919) (Solomon Islands)

T
tasmaniensis (Forel, 1913) (Australia, New Zealand)

taylori (Forel, 1894) (Bangladesh, China, India)

taylori levis (Forel, 1913) (Sri Lanka)

teranishii (Santschi, 1937) (Japan)

terricola (Buckley, 1866) (Mexico, United States)

• Prenolepis melanderi Wheeler, W.M., 1903

tjibodana (Karavaiev, 1929) (Indonesia)

tococae (Wheeler, W.M. & Bequaert, 1929) (Brazil)

trageri Kallal & LaPolla, 2012 (United States)

U
umbella LaPolla & Fisher, 2011 (Cameroun)

usambarica LaPolla, Hawkes & Fisher, 2011 (United Republic of Tanzania)

V
vaga (Forel, 1901) (Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna Islands)

• Paratrechina vaga crassipilis Santschi, 1928

• Paratrechina vaga irritans Santschi, 1928

vagabunda (Motschoulsky, 1863) (Sri Lanka)

vitiensis (Mann, 1921) (Fiji)

vividula (Nylander, 1846) (Balearic Islands, Bermuda, Brazil, China, Croatia, Cuba, Finland, Greece, India, Iran, Mauritius, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States, Venezuela)

• Formica picea Buckley Buckley, 1866

• Prenolepis kincaidi Wheeler, W.M., 1906

• Prenolepis vividula mjobergi Forel, 1908

vividula australis (Santschi, 1929) (Brazil)

W
waelbroecki (Emery, 1899) (Democratic Republic of Congo)

wojciki (Trager, 1984) (United States)

Y
yaeyamensis (Terayama, 1999) (Japan, Republic of Korea)

yambaru (Terayama, 1999) (Japan)

yerburyi (Forel, 1894) (China, India, Nicobar Island, Sri Lanka)

=Fossil Species=

P
pygmaea (Mayr, 1868) (Baltic amber)

V
vetula LaPolla & Dlussky, 2010 (Dominican amber)