Myopias maligna

Myopias maligna (Smith, 1861) valid

Ponera maligna Smith, 1861b: 44 (w.q.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Sulawesi (“Celebes”), Manado, “60/76” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 468, cites 1 worker, 1 queen in OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cites 1 worker, 1 queen in BMNH. 3) The two specimens in OXUM (1 worker, 1 queen), marked as types by Donisthorpe, 1932c, are not type material. The locality on their data discs is “Tond.” (= Tondano) whereas the type locality specified by Smith, 1861b is Manado; BMNH accessions register gives: “1860 no. 76 (Sept. 13). Celebes (Manado); purchased of Stevens, collected by A.R. Wallace” (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).

Combination in Trapeziopelta: Mayr, 1862: 715.
Combination in Myopias: Bolton, 1995b: 269.
Status as species: Mayr, 1862: 715; Roger, 1863b: 19; Mayr, 1863a: 457; Mayr, 1867a: 82 (redescription); Smith, 1871a: 322; Dalla Torre, 1893: 43; Emery, 1900b: 313 (in key); Emery, 1901i: 566; Emery, 1911e: 93; Forel, 1911g: 253; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 468; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 75; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 56; Probst et al., 2015: 205 (in key); Jaitrong et al., 2020: 618 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

M. m. punctigera (Emery, 1900)

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. 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. 1901i. Formiciden von Celebes. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 14:565-580. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303. 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. 1867a. Adnotationes in monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10:33-117. PDF
Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. 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. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Smith, F. 1861b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 6:36-48. PDF
Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF

Extant: 1 valid subspecies

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