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Issue: Vol. 1642 No. 1: 21 Nov. 2007
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2007-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1642.1.8
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Tyrannomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from India

Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, Zoological Institute, University of Wroclaw, Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wroclaw, Poland
Hymenoptera Formicidae Myrmicinae

Abstract

A second species in the myrmicine ant genus Tyrannomyrmex Fernández, 2003, T. dux sp. n., based on a solitary worker from a leaf litter sample from Kerala state, southern India, is described. The original genus definition is slightly modified to include the description of this new species.

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