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Issue: Vol. 1330 No. 1: 9 Oct. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-10-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1330.1.5
Page range: 59–68
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 2

Review of the ant genus Rogeria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Guyana

Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, POB 37012, NHB, CE518, MRC 188, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012. Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, Maryland 21252.
Maryland Center for Systematic Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, 4112 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, Maryland 20742
Hymenoptera biotic surveys leaf litter Myrmicinae new species

Abstract

The myrmicine ant genus Rogeria in Guyana is reviewed. Using previously published records, older collections, and collections from recent leaf litter ant survey work, nine Rogeria species are now known from Guyana, with another two species that probably also occur in Guyana. Among these eleven species, a new species, R. tsumani, is here described, and four of them, including the new species, are new records for Guyana. A key to the species found in Guyana is provided, along with illustrations of all 11 species.

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    Kugler, C. (1994) Revision of the ant genus Rogeria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with descriptions of the sting apparatus. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 3, 17–89.