Taylor, Robert W.
Lordomyrma
Sign in to saveLordomyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
Generic synonymy = Prodicroaspis Emery , 1914: 414. Type species (by monotypy): P. sarasini Emery , 1914: 414 (Mt Ignambi, NEW CALEDONIA). (Junior Synonym of Lordomyrma , Bolton, 1994: 106). = Promeranoplus Emery, 1914: 412. Type species (by monotypy): P rouxi Emery , 1914: 413 (Tchalabel, NEW CALEDONIA). (Junior synonym of Lordomyrma , Bolton, 1994: 106). Junior synonymy of Prodicroaspis and Promeranoplus was anticipated by Holldobler & Wilson (1990: 110). Taxonomic history is summarized by Bolton (2003: 204). The above synonymy is justified below in notes on the New Caledonian fauna. The type species of Prodicroaspis and Promeranoplus relate readily to L. furcifera (Figs 7, 8; 13-16), the type species of Lordomyrma , through bridging taxa with characters intermediate in either expression or combination, so that all may reasonably be considered congeneric. Lordomyrma includes several more-or-less geographically separated Indo-Australian faunas, which appear to represent the products of separate congeneric evolutionary radiations. The faunas of SE Asia and Japan, Australia, lowland New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, and Fiji differ distinctively in relative know
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 776
- Family
- Formicidae
- Collections
- CAS, NHMUK, USNM, CSIRO
- Recorded in
- Australia, Malaysia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea
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- Parent taxon
- Stenammini
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Lordomyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.
==Distribution and habitat== The genus is known principally from Melanesia and Australia, with the one exception to this otherwise circumscribed distribution being the single species L. azumai from Japan. Most species are denizens of the leaf litter in wet forest habitat, but some are known to nest and forage arboreally.
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