Revision of the genus Myrmoteras

The Asiatic formicine ant genus Myrmoteras is revised in full, with descriptions of ten new species and redescriptions of the eight previously described species here considered valid; M.

kemneri is provisionally synonymized with M. barbouri. Among the new species are the first records of Myrmoteras from India and Sulawesi. Two subgenera are recognized: in the subgenus

Myrmoteras (with seven species in two speciesgroups) a pair of long trigger hairs extends from the labrum; in the new subgenus Myagroteras (with eleven species in four species-groups) the trigger hairs

are absent. Cladistic analysis supports the informal species-group divisions and (if it is assumed that loss of palpal segments is more probable than regain) the monophyly of both subgenera.