Technomyrmex species groups

The following is based on Bolton, 2007.

Bolton noted: A number of groups of related species can be delimited, with varying degrees of certainty, within the genus. Several individual species that do not fall into any group are left as a residue, usually because each shows striking autapomophies but very few characters that link them to any larger group. For the present each of these isolated species has been placed in its own monotypic group.

This page contains a list of the species groups and, for what could be considered a monotypic species groups, brief notes. The later are more clearly defined in the text given on their respective species pages. Species groups with more than a single species have their own page that can be found by following the respective links given below.


 * Technomyrmex albipes group


 * Technomyrmex anterops - A Malagasy species of very uncertain affinities that forms carton nests on foliage.


 * Technomyrmex arnoldinus - An isolated Afrotropical species with reduced cephalic sculpture, large eyes and clypeal notch, and transverse sculpture present on the propodeal dorsum.


 * Technomyrmex fulvus - The only Neotropical species of the genus and the only endemic species in the entire New World. Its distribution is limited to small areas of Panama and Costa Rica.


 * Technomyrmex ilgi - This Afrotropical species is similar to members of the pratensis group, but retains a palp formula of 6,4.


 * Technomyrmex laurenti - A conspicuous Afrotropical species, usually found in association with various myrmecophytes.


 * Technomyrmex lujae - A very distinctive Afrotropical species. Its palp formula of 4,3 is shared only with the Malesian Technomyrmex reductus, which otherwise does not appear to be closely related.


 * Technomyrmex reductus - Like lujae this species from Borneo has PF 4,3 but is otherwise quite different.