Mayria

Mayr's Carpenter Ants

Diagnosis. Emery (1925). - "Worker and queen. - Medium species; dimorphism pronounced. Head of minors, medias, and queens almost as in Myrmentoma, but usually head of majors narrower anteriorly and more deeply emarginate posteriorly. Clypeus neither carinate medially nor subcarinate; without anterior lobe or with short, rounded or truncated lobe. Mandibles strongly arched, with 5 or 6 teeth. Mesosoma large anteriorly, narrow posteriorly; mesosomal dorsum not marginate, and with continuous profile, pronotum very arched and mesosoma almost straight posteriorly, or with propodeum concave dorsally, forming saddle-like profile, or with noticeable impression on meta-propodeal suture. Petiole thickly squamiform or nodiform. Abdominal segment III (gastral segment I) depressed in the typical species (C. madagascarensis, Forel), more-or-less normal in most other species. Male.- Ocelles present on summit of vertex (C. quadrimaculatus, Forel, gibber, Forel) (Plate 3, Figure 4). Remaining characters similar to Myrmentoma.

Geographical distribution of species. - Madagascar; some species inhabiting tropical Africa.

Note: This subgenus is very similar to Myrmentoma. Mayria is in some way intermediate between Myrmentoma and Tanaemyrmex of arrogans and natalensis species groups."

(Translated and edited by B. E. Boudinot, 17 February 2017.)

Mayria is currently a subgenus of Camponotus.

Nomenclature

 *  MAYRIA [subgenus of Camponotus]
 * Mayria Forel, 1878: 369. Type-species: Mayria madagascarensis (junior secondary homonym in Camponotus, replaced by Camponotus repens), by monotypy.
 * Mayria subgenus of Camponotus: Forel, 1894e: 227.
 * Mayria senior synonym of Myrmosaga: Emery, 1925b: 121.
 * MYRMOSAGA [junior synonym of Mayria]
 * Myrmosaga Forel, 1912i: 92 [as subgenus of Camponotus]. Type-species: Camponotus kelleri, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, W.M. 1913a: 81.
 * [Type-species not Camponotus quadrimaculatus, unjustified subsequent designation by Forel, 1914a: 260.]
 * Myrmosaga junior synonym of Mayria: Emery, 1925b: 121.