Aswaj Punnath, Anoop Karunakaran, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post, Bengaluru-560064, Karnataka, India.
Zootaxa. 2021 Jun 18;4990(1):160-171. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.1.10.
Two new species of the ant genus Myrmecina Curtis, 1829, M. bawai sp. nov. and M. reticulata sp. nov., are described and illustrated based on the worker caste from Mizoram, Northeast India. The genus is reported for the first time from Mizoram, the Indian state with the highest percentage of forest cover. A key to the Indian fauna of Myrmecina is also provided based on the worker caste.
基于来自印度东北部米佐拉姆邦的工蚁种群,描述并图示了蚁属(Myrmecina Curtis,1829)的两个新物种,即巴瓦蚁(M. bawai sp. nov.)和网纹蚁(M. reticulata sp. nov.)。这是该属首次在米佐拉姆邦被发现,该邦是印度森林覆盖率最高的邦。同时还提供了基于工蚁种群的印度蚁属动物检索表。