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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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.5
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Bannapone caliginosa
(
Onoyama, 1999
)
,
comb. nov.
Amblyopone caliginosa
Onoyama, 1999
: 158
. Combination in
Stigmatomma
:
Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012
: 19
.
Holotype
: worker,
Japan
: Kanagawa: Cape Manazuru,
13/xii/1981
, K. Masuko leg.,
Type
No.
OMNH
TI 102,
OMNH
, not examined.
Paratypes
:
1 female
and
4 workers
, same data as the
holotype
, not examined;
1 worker
,
Japan
: Kanagawa: Cape Manazuru,
19/ix/1982
, K. Masuko leg., not examined.
Non-type material examined.
Japan
: Chiba: Kamogawa,
1 queen
[
viii/2001
]; Kanagawa: Cape Manazuru,
1 worker
[K. Masuko leg.],
1 worker
[K. Masuko leg.,
19/ix/1982
]; Ishikawa: Kanazawa: Kakuma,
1 worker
[S. Iwanishi leg.,
23/ix/2007
].
Remarks.
The worker and queen of
B. caliginosa
is easily distinguished from those of
B. cryptica
by: (1) anteromedian portion of clypeus lacking a pair of extremely long and flexible setae; (2) frontal carinae inconspicuous, extending by no more than the length of frontal lobe; (3) posterolateral part of propodeum feebly produced posteriad. Furthermore, the worker of
B. caliginosa
is distinguished from that of
B. cryptica
by the 9th and 10th antennal segments each (a little) shorter than long.