Stigmatomma mulanae

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Stigmatomma mulanae
Stigmatomma mulanae dealate queen (holotype specimen)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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[edit]

  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)" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 41 (3): 683–693. Bibcode:2016SysEn..41..683W. doi:10.1111/syen.12186. S2CID 51820029.