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Issue: Vol. 4105 No. 6: 27 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.6.1
Page range: 501–545
Abstract views: 100
PDF downloaded: 1

The myrmicine ant genus Metapone Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a global taxonomic review with descriptions of twelve new species

Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO National Collections, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
Entomology Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Ants taxonomy Madagascar Africa Taiwan Australia Micronesia Melanesia Isoptera termites social parasitism predation Hymenoptera

Abstract

The 28 known species of Metapone are monographed and illustrated. Twelve are described as new: M. africana, Gabon; M. balinensis, Bali, Indonesia; M. enigmatica, northeast New Guinea; M. hoelldobleri, northeast Queensland, Australia; M. javana, Java, Indonesia; M. manni, Viti Levu, Fiji; M. mathinnae, Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia; M. philwardi, northeast New Guinea; M. salomonis, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; M. tecklini, northeast Queensland; M. titan, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea; M. wallaceana, Lombok, Indonesia; spp.n. New synonymies include M. greeni Forel = M. johni Karavaiev (Sri Lanka) syn.n, and M. jacobsoni Crawley (Sumatra) = M. nicobarensis Tiwari & Jonathan (Great Nicobar Island) syn.n.

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