Redefinition of the genus Bannapone and description of B. cryptica sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae)
Author
Eguchi, Katsuyuki
Author
Viet, Bui Tuan
Author
Yamane, Seiki
Author
Terayama, Mamoru
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Zootaxa
2015
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77
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.5
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1175-5326
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Bannapone scrobiceps
Guénard, Blanchard, Liu, Yang et Economo, 2015
Bannapone scrobiceps
Guénard, Blanchard, Liu, Yang et Economo, 2015: 373
.
Holotype
: worker, Yunnan: Mengla: Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (21°55’07.1”N, 101°16’20.6”E,
550 m
alt.), not examined (but the images in the original description examined).
Paratype
:
1 worker
, same data as the hologype, not examined.
Remarks.
The queen of
B. scrobiceps
is easily distinguished from that of
B. cryptica
by: (1) mid-basal tooth row of mandible consisting of 2 blunt teeth; (2) a pair of setae on anteromedian portion of clypeus short.