Technomyrmex gibbosus group

The following is based on Bolton, 2007.

Species

• Technomyrmex gibbosus
• Technomyrmex vexatus

Notes

The group contains just a pair of species from the southern Palaearctic but separated by thousands of miles: one is from Morocco and the other from Japan. The possibility that they have evolved their similarities independently must be entertained.

Description

Probably closely related to the albipes group and with the same short, stocky mesosoma. The anterior clypeal margin has only the weakest of median impressions and setae are entirely lacking from the head behind the clypeus, the mesosoma including the propodeal declivity, and gastral tergites 1 - 3. With the mesosoma in profile the pronotum and mesonotum form separate curved surfaces and the mesonotum is distinctly convex. Palp formula 6,4.

Related Pages

• Technomyrmex
• Technomyrmex species groups

References

• Bolton, B. 2007b. Taxonomy of the dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute. 35(1):1-149.