Manoa Mamitiana Ramamonjisoa‡, Nicole Rasoamanana‡, Brian Lee Fisher§Corresponding author: Manoa Ramamonjisoa ( ramamonjisoamanoa@gmail.com ) © Manoa Ramamonjisoa, Nicole Rasoamanana, Brian Lee Fisher. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Ramamonjisoa MM, Rasoamanana N, Fisher BL (2024) Male-based key to the subfamilies and genera of Malagasy ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e120652 |  |
The males of the family Formicidae in the Malagasy region, including the islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Comoros, and Seychelles) are reviewed. A male-based synopsis of each subfamily and genera are provided. A richly illustrated male-based key to the eight subfamilies and 71 genera for which males are known are provided. Terminologies for morphology and wing cells are also reviewed. The keys are a product of three decades of collecting across the region. Despite efforts to collect males for all genera, males from four genera (Brachyponera, Chrysapace, Dicroaspis, Ochetellus) were included in the keys based on males from species collected outside the region, and males from one genus (Parvaponera) are unknown globally and not included in the key.