A new species of the ant genus Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Caribbean region

  • Matthew Prebus Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616
  • David Lubertazzi Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.211
Keywords: Bothriomyrmecini, Dolichoderinae, Greater Antilles, disjunct distribution, Neotropic

Abstract

Bothriomyrmex enigmaticus sp. nov. is described from the island of Hispañola based on one nest collection. This is the first collection of the genus Bothriomyrmex (Emery, 1869) from the Caribbean region, and the second species to be described from the Americas. While sharing several characters with B. paradoxus (Dubovikoff & Longino, 2004) from Costa Rica and Honduras, B. enigmaticus sp. nov. diverges in several key characters, including palp formula. However, a morphometric comparison to Palearctic species of the tribe Bothriomyrmecini suggests affinities to B. paradoxus, Chronoxenus wroughtoni (Forel, 1895) of the eastern Palearctic, and to a lesser extent an undescribed species of Arnoldius (Dubovikoff, 2005) from Australia and B. corsicus (Santschi,1923) of the western Palearctic.

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Published
2016-07-11
How to Cite
Prebus, M., & Lubertazzi, D. (2016). A new species of the ant genus Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Caribbean region. European Journal of Taxonomy, (211). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.211
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No. 211 (2016): A new species of the ant genus Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Caribbean region
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Entomology
Copyright (c) 2016 Matthew Prebus, David Lubertazzi

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