Pilotrochus

Pilotrochus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Pilotrochus besmerus.^[1] It is known from Madagascar.^[2]

Pilotrochus
Pilotrochus besmerus worker from Madagascar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Pilotrochus Brown, 1978
Species:	P. besmerus
Binomial name
Pilotrochus besmerus Brown, 1978

The name of the genus is derived from Greek plios, "hair" + trochos, "wheel"; the specific name is from Latin bes, "eight of twelve" + Greek meros, "part", referencing the eight-segmented antennae.^[2]