Adetomyrma venatrix

SPECIES

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

Holotype worker. MADAGASCAR , Zombitse Forest, along Route Nationale 7. 15 km E Sakaraha , 760 m, 22 ° 54 ' S , 44 ° 41 ' E , 15 February 1993 , P. S. Ward no. 11932 , ex rotten log, tropical dry forest ( MCZC ) . Paratypes . Series of twenty workers, same data as holotype (to be deposited in ANIC , BMNH , LACM , MCZC , MNHN , PBZT , PSWC , UCDC ) . Worker measurements (n = 13). HW 0.40 - 0.49, HL 0.48 - 0.56, SL 0.29 - 0.34, PW 0.28 - 0.33, DPW 0.20 - 0.27, LHT 0.32 - 0.37, CI 0.83 - 0.90, SI 0.66 - 0.73. Description (worker). Small (HW <0.50 mm), pale and blind. Mandibles subfalcate, without distinct basal and masticatory margins (Fig. 12); inner margin with 3 or (more commonly) 4 teeth, equally spaced and lying in the same plane as the front of the head, followed by a gap (0.05 - 0.06 mm) and two longer (subapical and apical) teeth which, as a consequence of the curvature of the mandibles, lie in the dorsoventral plane when the mandibles are closed. Closed mandibles with apices overlapping. Clypeus very short, its principal surface deflected vent rally, anterior margin broadly convex and furnished with a row of about 20 small, specialized, conical setae (Figs 7, 12). Frontal

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