Boltonia microps (Camacho & Franco & Branstetter & Pie & Longino, 2022)

Camacho, G. P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M. G., Pie, M. R. & Longino, J. T., 2022, UCE Phylogenomics Resolves Major Relationships Among Ectaheteromorph Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A New Classification, Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1), pp. 1-20 : 14

Species: microps .

Distribution: Exclusively Neotropical, from Costa Rica to northern Argentina and southern Brazil.

Notes: We here propose the new genus Boltonia to accommodate a single species, B. microps ( Borgmeier 1957) , formerly a member of Heteroponera . This species represents a divergent lineage at the base of Heteroponerini and is the sister-group of all the remaining species in the tribe. The genus name is an homage to Barry Bolton, legendary ant taxonomist and author of Bolton’s Catalogue of Ants of the World, which is the very foundation of all taxonomic papers published in myrmecology since 1994.

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