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Issue: Vol. 2204 No. 1: 20 Aug. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-08-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2204.1.5
Page range: 55–62
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 12

Diaphoromyrma, a new myrmicine ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from North Eastern Brazil

Profesor Asociado, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Apartado 7495, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
U.P.A. Laboratório de Mirmecologia, Convênio UESC/CEPLAC, Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau; Cx.P. 7, 45600-000 Itabuna-BA, Brazil
Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Campus de Jequié, Rua José Moreira Sobrinho, Jequiezinho, 45206-510 Jequié-BA, Brazil
Hymenoptera Brazil Formicidae Diaphoromyrma sofiae new genus new species

Abstract

Diaphoromyrma sofiae, new genus and new species, is a Myrmicinae ant described from workers from the State of Bahia, Brazil. This taxon is characterized by the following traits: Antenna 9-segmented with 2-segmented club, trapezoidal promesonotum in dorsal view, propodeal spiracles situated on the propodeal edges, and the fourth abdominal sternite with a pair of rounded recurved anterolateral extensions which curve up onto the dorsal surface of the segment. Apparently this ant is close to the genera Allomerus and Diplomorium in the Solenopsidini, but its tribal attribution remains difficult because of the inadequate resolution of the phylogenetic relationships within the Myrmicinae.

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