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Issue: Vol. 1475 No. 1: 17 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1475.1.1
Page range: 1–19
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 3

New ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Micronesia

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Invertebrates, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Hymenoptera Formicidae ant Micronesia Pohnpei Marianas Palau Yap Camponotus Pheidole Vollenhovia

Abstract

Nine new species of ants collected in Micronesia are described and illustrated: Camponotus eperiamorum n. sp. (Pohnpei I.), C. erythrocephalus n. sp. (Yap I.), C. flavicomans n. sp. (Palau), C. marianensis n. sp. (Mariana Is.), C. peleliuensis n. sp. (Palau), Pheidole recondita n. sp. (Marianas and eastern Caroline Is), Vollenhovia kaselela n. sp. (Pohnpei I.), V. mwereka n. sp. (Pohnpei I.), and V. pwidikidika n. sp. (Pohnpei I.). They were discovered while cataloging the ant fauna of Micronesia, and several of them were already noted as possible new species when found in museum collections. Type series for five of the species include modern collections made during the course of this study.

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