Taylor Robert W
Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Honorary Fellow, National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, Canberra.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Apr 15;3947(2):151-80. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.1.
Workers and available gynes of Heteroponera relicta and nine new related morphospecies from northeast Queensland tropical rainforest are described in two species complexes: H. relicta (Wheeler), H. darlingtonorum, H. lioprocta, H. monteithi, H. rhodopygea, H. viviennae and H. wilsoni spp. n. (Heteroponera relicta complex); H. ecarinata, H. pendergrasti and H. trachypyx spp. n. (Heteroponera ecarinata complex). Known gynes (of 3 relicta-complex species) are flightless physogastric ergatoids. Biogeography and evolution of the group and of Heteroponera at large are reviewed.
本文描述了来自昆士兰东北部热带雨林的异猛蚁属（Heteroponera）的工蚁和可育雌蚁以及九个新的相关形态物种，它们分属于两个物种复合体：异猛蚁（H. relicta）（惠勒）、达氏异猛蚁（H. darlingtonorum）、光腹异猛蚁（H. lioprocta）、蒙氏异猛蚁（H. monteithi）、红臀异猛蚁（H. rhodopygea）、维氏异猛蚁（H. viviennae）和威尔逊异猛蚁（H. wilsoni）新种（异猛蚁复合体）；无脊异猛蚁（H. ecarinata）、彭氏异猛蚁（H. pendergrasti）和糙盾异猛蚁（H. trachypyx）新种（无脊异猛蚁复合体）。已知的雌蚁（来自异猛蚁复合体中的3个物种）是无翅的肥腹型补充生殖蚁。本文还综述了该类群以及整个异猛蚁属的生物地理学和进化情况。
