Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax
Author
Prebus, Matthew M.
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States & Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
mprebus@gmail.com
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PeerJ
2021
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2021-06-30
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11514
journal article
10.7717/peerj.11514
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misomoschus
group overview
This group is monotypic, with the nominal
Temnothorax misomoschus
sp. nov.
being the only member. With its depressed propodeum, strongly curved propodeal spines, and nearly complete lack of standing setae, this species is distinctive in the
salvini
clade, not to mention the genus as a whole. Collected from only a couple of geographically disparate collections (southern Texas and
Nicaragua
;
Fig. 120G
), this species apparently has a large range, but we still know little about its biology. It is sister to the
goniops
group (Prebus, in prep.).