Megalomyrmex emeryi

Nothing is known about the biology of .

Identification
Brandão (1990) - M. emeryi exhibits various characters representing extremes within the variation range of the genus, suggesting a high degree of derivation. For instance, the node shape. pronotal lateral swellings and the degree of the longitudinal depression on propodeum dorsum. The extreme development of the genual plates in a spine-like projection called my attention. At the largest portion of the plate there is a white rounded spot, which may correspond to a gland, but confirmation would require alive specimens.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Bolivia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname.

Nomenclature

 *  emeryi. Megalomyrmex emeryi Forel, 1904d: 174 (w.) SURINAM. Brandão, 1990: 434 (m.).

Worker
Brandão (1990) - Mandibles smooth. anterior clypeal border straight without denticle; frontal suture impressed; 3-segmented antennal club; 21 ocular facets at compound eye largest diameter; occipital margin raised, visible at head frontal view; lateral portions of pronotal disc distinctly swollen, separated by a sagital depression: promesonotal suture impressed dorsally; mesosternum and metasternun with developed acrotergites paired teeth; dorsal face of propodeum, in side view. depressed transversally: dorsal face and declivity of propodeum meeting laterally in conical tubercles divergent and round at apex; propodeum dorsum deeply impressed longitudinally; declivity smooth; epipetiolar carina incomplete; non-pedunculate petiole with anteroventral denticle: dorsal margin of petiolar node, in side view, straight; squamiform petiole with sharp dorsal margin. notched at the center: pospetiole without ventral processes and longitudinally depressed node: genual plates acuminate.

Male
Brandão (1990) - Clypeus smooth without anterior denticle: cephalic integument smooth next to the compound eyes; 3 first funicular segments larger than scape; mesonotum with parapsidal suture impressed. but no notaulus: epipetiolar carina incomplete: dorsal face of propodeum smooth; petiolar spiracles laterally produced: petiolar node globose; postpetiolar node conical and ventral process spatulate advancing beneath the first gastric segment; Rs divided in Rs 1 and Rs2, Rs2 not equally developed on right and left wings.

Type Material
Brandão (1990) - Holotype at Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles (coli. Ballion, ex coli. Puis).