Adetomyrma

GENUS

1. KingdomAnimalia
2. PhylumArthropoda
3. ClassInsecta
4. OrderHymenoptera
5. FamilyFormicidae

Observations recorded894

Worker diagnosis (putative autapomorphies of the genus are marked with an asterisk; some of these designations are better understood in the context of the phylogenetic position of Adetomyrma , discussion of which is deferred to a later part of the paper): 1. Twelve antennal segments. 2. Mandibles subfalcate, crossing at rest, and without differentiated basal and masticatory margins (Figs 7, 12); inner margin with relatively few teeth (5 - 6 teeth in the only known species). 3. * Palpal segmentation reduced (palp formula 3,3 in the only known species). 4. * Clypeus reduced to a narrow strip (dorsal view) and deflected ventrally. 5. Anterior clypeal margin with a row of stout, conical setae (Fig. 12). 6. Antennal sclerite (or torulus) raised medially, i. e. not horizontal, and fused with the laterally expanded frontal lobes. 7. Frontal lobes weakly developed, only partially covering the antennal insertions in dorsal view (Figs 6, 7), the maximum distance between their outer margins about 14 % of HW. 8. * Compound eye lacking. 9. Promesonotal suture unfused and flexible. 10. * Metanotum not evident and mesonotum reduced in size, much shorter than the basal face of the propodeum (Fig.

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Specimen records

2

Family

Formicidae

Collections

USNM

Recorded in

Madagascar

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Amblyoponinae

Image

Adetomyrma venatrix casent0172771 profile 1.jpg

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