Biology:Stigmatomma mulanae

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Short description: Species of ant

Stigmatomma mulanae
Bannapone mulanae casent0104980 profile 1.jpg
Stigmatomma mulanae dealate queen (holotype specimen)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Stigmatomma
Species:
S. mulanae
Binomial name
Stigmatomma mulanae
(Xu, 2000)
Synonyms
  • Bannapone mulanae Xu, 2000

Stigmatomma mulanae is a species of ant of the genus Stigmatomma. Described by Xu in 2000 from a single dealate queen found in 1998 in the Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province, it was placed as the type species of Bannapone, under the name Bannapone mulanae.[1] It was moved to Stigmatomma by Ward & Fisher (2016).[2]

References

  1. Xu, Z.-H. B. (2000). "Two new genera of ant subfamilies Dorylinae and Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Yunnan, China.". Zoological Research 21: 297–302. 
  2. Ward, P. S.; Fisher, B. L. (2016). "Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Systematic Entomology 41 (3): 683–693. doi:10.1111/syen.12186. http://antcat.org/documents/6571/ward_et_al-2016-systematic_entomology.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3634400 entry