| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Authors: | B. Bolton, Fisher B. L. |
| Volume: | 3238 |
| Pagination: | 1 - 101 |
| Date Published: | 2012 |
| Keywords: | Afrotropical Malagasy, diagnoses, keys to species, Simopone, Simopone bakeri, Tanipone, Vicinopone |
| Abstract: | Taxonomic studies of three cerapachyine ant genera are presented: the Old World tropical Simopone Forel, the Afrotropical Vicinopone gen. n. and the Malagasy endemic genus Tanipone gen. n. Vicinopone is a monotypic genus, the sole species of which (conciliatrix) was formerly included in Simopone. Ten species of Tanipone are recognised (aglandula, aversa, cognata, hirsuta, maculata, pilosa, scelesta, subpilosa, varia, zona), all of which are newly described here. The number of species of Simopone is increased from 15 to 38 by the description of 9 new Afrotropical species (amana, brunnea, dryas, latiscapa, miniflava, occulta, persculpta, rabula, vepres), 13 new Madagascan species (consimilis, dignita, dux, elegans, fera, inculta, merita, nonnihil, rex, sicaria, silens, trita, victrix), and the resurrection of one name (wilburi) from synonymy. Modern diagnoses of the genera are included, together with newly designed keys to the Afrotropical and Malagasy species. |
| Short Title: | Zootaxa |