A new species of Stigmatomma from Taiwan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae)

By

Hsu, Feng-Chuan
Esteves, Flávia de Araújo
Chou, Lien-Siang
Lin, Chung-Chi

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

705

Pages

81-94

Subjects

cryptic species , dracula ants , Forest Dynamics Plot , Lienhuachih , soil sample , Winkler method

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.705.10296

 

Abstract

Stigmatomma is the most speciose ant genus in the subfamily Amblyoponinae. In the present paper, the worker caste of a new species is described, S. luyiae sp. n., which was collected from a soil sample in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in Taiwan. An identification key to the females of Stigmatomma species with 11 antennomeres occurring in Asia is also provided.