Probolomyrmex salomonis

This species is restricted to the Solomon Islands where it is known from a handful of collections made in forested situations.

Identification
Petiolar node relatively long and narrow (best viewed dorsally), the dorsal face (in side view) uniformly convex and without a separation of the anterior and dorsal faces; anterior projection of the subpetiolar process broadly rounded, the posterior projection in the form of a blunt tooth.

Probolomyrmex salomonis is most similar to Probolomyrmex simplex from Papua New Guinea. It differs in having the anteroventral tooth of the subpetiolar process broadly rounded rather than narrow and tooth-like, the lateral flanges on the posterior face of the propodeum more weakly developed and in having the foveae on the mesosoma and gaster more strongly developed.

Distribution
This taxon was described from Solomon Is.

Nomenclature

 *  salomonis. Probolomyrmex salomonis Taylor, 1965d: 358, figs. 20, 21 (w.) SOLOMON IS. See also: Shattuck, Gunawardene & Heterick, 2012: 47.

Additional References

 * Shattuck, S.O., Gunawardene, N.G. & Heterick, B. 2012. A revision of the ant genus Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Proceratiinae) in Australia and Melanesia. Zootaxa 3444: 40–50.