Myopias xiphias

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 * . Trapeziopelta xiphias Emery, 1900c: 313, pl. 8, fig. 2 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
 * Type-material: holotype queen.
 * Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (L. Biró).
 * Type-depository: HNHM.
 * Combination in Myopias: Bolton, 1995b: 270.
 * Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 94; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 76; Bolton, 1995b: 270; Probst, Guénard & Boudinot, 2015: 204 (in key).
 * Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

Description
Description based upon a single specimen collected by Friedrich Wilhelmshafen.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Emery C. 1900. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23: 310-338.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
 * Viehmeyer H. 1912. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14: 1-26.
 * Wilson Edward O. 1959. Adaptive Shift and Dispersal in a Tropical Ant Fauna. Evolution 13(1): 122-144