The ant genus Myopias Roger, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) in Thailand, with descriptions of three new species
Author
Jaitrong, Weeyawat
Author
Tasen, Wattanachai
Author
Guénard, Benoit
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-29
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4526.2.3
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Myopias
Roger, 1861
Myopias
Roger, 1861
: 39
. Type-species:
Myopias amblyops
, by monotypy.
Bradyponera
Mayr, 1886: 362
. Type-species:
Ponera nitida
(junior primary homonym in
Ponera
, replaced by
Trapeziopelta mayri
), by monotypy.
Trapeziopelta
Mayr, 1862: 715
. Type-species:
Ponera maligna
, by monotypy.
FIGURES 1–12.
Morphological characters us in the key. 1, 3–5, petiole in profile; 2, 6–8, shape and dentition of right mandible; 9–10, head in full-face view; 11–12, head in profile. 1, 2,
Myopias minima
; 3, 7, 10, 12,
Myopias crawleyi
; 4,
Myopias sakaeratensis
; 5,
Myopias conicara
; 6, 9, 11,
Myopias mandibularis
; 8,
Myopias maligna punctigera
.
The general terminology of the worker ants follows
Hölldobler & Wilson (1990)
, and
Bolton
(1994)
. For the important characters of the worker in the genus
Myopias
used in this paper, see
Willey & Brown (1983)
and
Schmidt & Shattuck (2014)
.