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Revision of the myrmicine ant genus Lophomyrmex , with a review of its taxonomic position (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Author(s) -
RIGATO FABRIZIO
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1994.tb00578.x
Subject(s) - biology , hymenoptera , ant , key (lock) , zoology , genus , taxonomy (biology) , myrmicinae , ecology
. The myrmicine ant genus Lophomyrmex is fully revised and transferred from tribe Pheidologetonini to Pheidolini (tribal transfer: Pheidolini, senior synonym of Lophomyrmecini syn.n.). Ten species are recognized, which are placed into two species groups. The quadrispinosus group, characterized by the presence of pronotal teeth or spines, includes birmanus, kali sp.n., opaciceps stat.n. ( =javana syn.n.), quadrispinosus ( =taprobanae syn.n.) and taivanae stat.n. The bedoti group, in which the pronotum is dorsolateraly marginate, includes ambiguus sp.n., bedoti, longicomis sp.n., lucidus stat.n. and strialulus sp.n. A key to the worker caste is presented and descriptions of known sexual forms are given.