A new species of Tyrannomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Sri Lanka.

Zootaxa

Entomology Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Published: September 2015

Tyrannomyrmex legatus sp. nov. is described based on a single worker collected from leaf litter in dipterocarp forest in southern Sri Lanka. A key is presented to separate the three known species of Tyrannomyrmex. A probable male specimen of the genus from the Philippines is noted. Tyrannomyrmex is placed within the tribe Solenopsidini and close to the genus Monomorium.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3721.3.5DOI Listing

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