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Myopias menba Xu & Liu, 2012 valid

Myopias menba Xu & Liu, 2012: 824, figs. 8-11 (w.) CHINA (Tibet). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: China: Tibet, Medog County, Medog Town, Yarang, 720 m., 20.v.2008, no. A08-838, on ground in secondary rainforest (Z. Xu). Primary type depository: SFCY. Primary type specimen: ANTWEB1060514.

Status as species: Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 60; Xu et al., 2014b: 166 (in key); Probst et al., 2015: 204 (in key).

Citations

Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. 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
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

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