Bolton Barry, Fisher Brian L
1 c/o Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.; Email: unknown.
Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118, U.S.A.; Email: unknown.
Zootaxa. 2014 Apr 24;3791:1-99. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3791.1.1.
The monophyletic group of myrmicine ant genera related to Eutetramorium is described and its taxonomy is documented. The group is endemic in Madagascar and contains five genera: Eutetramorium Emery, 1899 (3 species, 1 of which is new); Malagidris nom. n., a replacement name for Brunella Forel, 1917, junior homonym of Brunella Smith, G.W. 1909 (Crustacea) (6 species, 5 of which are new); Myrmisaraka gen. n. (2 species, both new); Royidris gen. n. (15 species, 11 of which are new); Vitsika gen. n. (14 species, all of which are new). Keys to the worker caste are provided for all genera, and provisional keys to known males are given for Malagidris and Vitsika.
描述了与真四节蚁属相关的蚁亚科蚁属的单系群，并记录了其分类学。该类群为马达加斯加特有，包含五个属：真四节蚁属（Eutetramorium），埃默里，1899年（3种，其中1种为新种）；马拉吉蚁属（Malagidris），新名称，为1917年的布鲁内拉蚁属（Brunella）的替代名，布鲁内拉蚁属是1909年史密斯（G.W.）的布鲁内拉属（甲壳纲）的次同名（6种，其中5种为新种）；蚁萨拉克蚁属（Myrmisaraka），新属（2种，均为新种）；罗伊蚁属（Royidris），新属（15种，其中11种为新种）；维齐卡蚁属（Vitsika），新属（14种，均为新种）。给出了所有属工蚁等级的检索表，并给出了马拉吉蚁属和维齐卡蚁属已知雄蚁的临时检索表。
