Protanilla is a genus of subterranean ants in the subfamily Leptanillinae. Known from the Indomalayan realm, the genus contains about thirteen species. The genus was erected by Taylor (1990) for the type species P. rafflesi, described from workers from Peninsular Malaysia. Species in this genus have long and downcurved mandibles with peg-like tooth on the inner margins. Four species are known from China (P. bicolor, P. concolor, P. gengma and P. tibeta), one from Taiwan (P. lini), one from Sri Lanka (P. schoedli) and a couple from India (P. wardi, P. flamma).
Species
- Protanilla beijingensis <small>Man et al., 2017</small>
- Protanilla bicolor <small>Xu, 2002</small>
- Protanilla boltoni <small>(Borowiec et al., 2011)</small>
- Protanilla concolor <small>Xu, 2002</small>
- Protanilla eguchii <small>Satria et al., 2023</small>
- Protanilla flamma <small>Baidya & Bagchi, 2020</small>
- Protanilla furcomandibula <small>Xu & Zhang, 2002</small>
- Protanilla gengma <small>Xu, 2012</small>
- Protanilla helenae <small>(Borowiec et al., 2011)</small>
- Protanilla izanagi <small>Terayama, 2013</small>
- Protanilla jongi <small>Hsu et al., 2017</small>
- Protanilla lini <small>Terayama, 2009</small>
- Protanilla rafflesi <small>Taylor, 1990</small>
- Protanilla rong <small>Griebenow et al., 2025</small>
- Protanilla schoedli <small>Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2006</small>
- Protanilla shanyii <small>Chen et al., 2025</small>
- Protanilla taylori <small>(Bolton, 1990)</small>
- Protanilla tibeta <small>Xu, 2012</small>
- Protanilla wallacei <small>Griebenow, 2024</small>
- Protanilla wardi <small>Bharti & Akbar, 2015</small>
- Protanilla xui <small>Chen et al., 2025</small>
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