Lordomyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[4]

Lordomyrma
Lordomyrma furcifera worker form Papua New Guinea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Lordomyrma
Emery, 1897
Type species
Lordomyrma furcifera[note 1]
Emery, 1897
Diversity[2]
34 species
Synonyms

Prodicroaspis Emery, 1914
Promeranoplus Emery, 1914

Distribution and habitat edit

The genus is known principally from Melanesia and Australia, with the one exception to this otherwise circumscribed distribution being the single species L. azumai from Japan. Most species are denizens of the leaf litter in wet forest habitat, but some are known to nest and forage arboreally.[5]

Description edit

Members of the genus are small and inconspicuous, maintain colonies of modest size and tend to be shy and retiring when disturbed.[5]

Species edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ The type species is Lordomyrma furcifera (by subsequent designation of Wheeler (1911)),[1] not Podomyrma caledonica, an incorrect subsequent designation by Wheeler (1919).[2][3]

References edit

  1. ^ Wheeler, W. M. (1911), "A list of the type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 21: 157–175, doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1911.tb56932.x, S2CID 85430772
  2. ^ a b Bolton, B. (2014). "Lordomyrma". AntCat. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  3. ^ Wheeler, W. M. (1919), "The ant genus Lordomyrma Emery", Psyche, 26 (4): 97–106, doi:10.1155/1919/78258
  4. ^ "Genus: Lordomyrma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  5. ^ a b Lucky, Andrea; Sarnat, Eli M. (2008), "New species of Lordomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Southeast Asia and Fiji." (PDF), Zootaxa, 1681: 37–46, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1681.1.3

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