Australasian ants of the subfamily Heteroponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): (2) the species-group of Heteroponera relicta (Wheeler), with descriptions of nine new species and observations on morphology, biogeography and phylogeny of the genus

作者：Taylor Robert W^*

来源：Zootaxa, 2015, 3947(2): 151-180.

DOI：10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.1

• taxonomy
• Australia
• Queensland
• Wet Tropics Heritage Area
• Neotropical
• South America
• Gondwana
• rainforest

Workers and available gynes of Heteroponera relicta and nine new related morphospecies from northeast Queensland tropical rainforest are described in two species complexes: H. relicta (Wheeler), H. darlingtonorum, H. lioprocta, H. monteithi, H. rhodopygea, H. viviennae and H. wilsoni spp. n. (Heteroponera relicta complex); H. ecarinata, H. pendergrasti and H. trachypyx spp. n. (Heteroponera ecarinata complex). Known gynes ( of 3 relicta-complex species) are flightless physogastric ergatoids. Biogeography and evolution of the group and of Heteroponera at large are reviewed.

• 出版日期2015-4-15
• 单位CSIRO