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Issue: Vol. 4410 No. 3: 18 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-18
DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4410.3.9
Page range: 559–566
Abstract views: 77
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Leptogenys from southern Brazil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Hymenoptera urban biodiversity morphology endemism Atlantic Forest montane forest

Abstract

Two new species of ants belonging to the genus Leptogenys are described: L. academica n. sp., and L. carioca n. sp., both belonging to the crudelis group. The former species is known from the city of Curitiba while the other species occurs in montane forests of the Itatiaia Plateau. We provide descriptions based on the worker caste, images, as well as a modification of the key presently used for identifying the New World workers of Leptogenys.

 

 

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