Myopias Roger, 1861

Jaitrong, Weeyawat, Tasen, Wattanachai & Guénard, Benoit, 2018, The ant genus Myopias Roger, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) in Thailand, with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4526 (2), pp. 151-174 : 153-154

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Myopias Roger, 1861 View in CoL

Myopias Roger, 1861: 39 View in CoL . Type-species: Myopias amblyops View in CoL , by monotypy.

Bradyponera Mayr, 1886: 362 . Type-species: Ponera nitida (junior primary homonym in Ponera View in CoL , replaced by Trapeziopelta mayri ), by monotypy.

Trapeziopelta Mayr, 1862: 715 . Type-species: Ponera maligna , by monotypy.

The general terminology of the worker ants follows Hölldobler & Wilson (1990), and Bolton (1994). For the important characters of the worker in the genus Myopias View in CoL used in this paper, see Willey & Brown (1983) and Schmidt & Shattuck (2014).

References

Bolton, B. (1994) Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 222 pp.

Holldobler, B. & Wilson, E. O. (1990) The Ants. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 733 pp.

Roger, J. (1861) Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 5, 1 - 54.

Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O. (2014) The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa, 3817 (1), 1 - 242. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3817.1.1

Willey, R. B. & Brown, Jr. W. L. (1983) New species of the ant genus Myopias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche, 90, 249 - 285. https: // doi. org / 10.1155 / 1983 / 79524