Myopias
Roger, 1861
valid
feminine
- Myopias in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 713 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 12 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 16.
- Myopias in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 94 [subtribe Plectroctenini]; Forel, 1917: 238; Wheeler, 1922: 650; all subsequent authors.
- Myopias as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b: 182 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389.
- Myopias as genus: Willey & Brown, 1983: 249; all subsequent authors.
Junior synonyms
- Bradyponera Mayr, 1886
- Trapeziopelta Mayr, 1862
Genus Myopias references
Roger, 1863b: 19 (Myopias, Trapeziopelta catalogues); Mayr, 1863a: 429, 457 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 11, 12 (Trapeziopelta, Myopias diagnoses); Mayr, 1867a: 81 (Trapeziopelta diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 16, 43 (Myopias, Trapeziopelta catalogues); Emery, 1900b: 313 (New Guinea Trapeziopelta species key); Bingham, 1903: 103 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 93 (Trapeziopelta diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 94 (diagnosis, catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 67, 75 (Asia Myopias, Trapeziopelta checklists); Willey & Brown, 1983: 274 (Australia species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 41 (Australia checklist); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 269 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 190 (Australia synopsis); Xu & Liu, 2012: 821 (China species key); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 111 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Xu et al., 2014b: 165 (Oriental species key); Probst et al., 2015: 195 (global species key, male generic diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 264 (brief male diagnosis); Jaitrong et al., 2018: 154 (Thailand species key); Jaitrong et al., 2020: 617 (Borneo species key)
Citations
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
- Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J.; Ayensu, E. S.; Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) 1973. Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, viii + 350 pp. PDF
- Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
- Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:310-338. PDF
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
- Jaitrong, W.; Tasen, W; Guénard, B. 2018. The ant genus Myopias Roger, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) in Thailand, with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 4526:151–174. 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.2.3 PDF
- Jaitrong, W.; Wiwatwitaya, D.; Yamane, S. 2020. Three new species of the ant genus Myopias Roger, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Borneo. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68:608-618. 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0076 PDF
- Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1867a. Adnotationes in monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10:33-117. PDF
- Probst, R. S.; Guénard, B.; Boudinot, B. E. 2015. Toward understanding the predatory ant genus Myopias (Formicidae: Ponerinae), including a key to global species, male-based generic diagnosis, and new species description. Sociobiology 62:192-212. 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i2.192-212 PDF
- Roger, J. 1861a. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 5:1-54. PDF
- Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
- Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
- Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) 1981. Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp.
- Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
- Willey, R. B.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1983. New species of the ant genus Myopias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche (Cambridge) 90:249-285. PDF
- Xu, Z.-H.; Burwell, C. J.; Nakamura, A. 2014b. A new species of the ponerine ant genus Myopias Roger from Yunnan, China, with a key to the known Oriental species. Sociobiology 61 (2):164-170. PDF
- Xu, Z.-H.; Liu, X. 2012. Three new species of the ant genus Myopias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China with a key to the known Chinese species. Sociobiology 59:819-834. PDF
Extant: 46 valid species, 2 valid subspecies
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