ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e95996
Description of the male of Erromyrma Bolton & Fisher, 2016 (Hymenoptera, Aculeata, Formicidae, Myrmicinae)
Manoa Mamitiana Ramamonjisoa‡, Brian Lee Lee Fisher§§‡ Madagascar Biodiversity Center, Antananarivo, Madagascar§ California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, United States of America
Corresponding author: Manoa Ramamonjisoa ( ramamonjisoamanoa@gmail.com ) © Manoa Ramamonjisoa, 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, Fisher BLL (2022) Description of the male of Erromyrma Bolton & Fisher, 2016 (Hymenoptera, Aculeata, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) . ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e95996 |  |
Abstract
The male of myrmicine genus Erromyrma is described for the first time on the basis of two male specimens of Erromyrma latinodis collected in northern Madagascar. Moreover, CO1 barcoding confirmed the identification of the male specimens as conspecific with Erromyrma latinodis. We provide a male-based key to the four Myrmicinae tribes (Attini, Crematogastrini, Solenopsidini, Stenammini) and to the Solenopsidini genera (Adelomyrmex, Erromyrma, Solenopsis, Syllophopsis and Monomorium) for the Malagasy region.
Keywords
Morphology, Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini, Erromyrma, male ants.