Published January 25, 2022 | Version v1
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Boltonia Camacho and Feitosa 2022, new genus

  • 1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 82590 - 300, Curitiba, Brazil,
  • 2. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Utah State University, 84322, Logan, UT, USA,
  • 3. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 82590 - 300, Curitiba, Brazil,
  • 4. Department of Biology, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, and

Description

Boltonia Camacho and Feitosa new genus

Type Species: Boltonia microps (Borgmeier) new combinationtion (Fig. 3)

Diagnosis (Females): Ants of comparatively small size (head width 0.42-0.53, head length 0.53-0.67). Mandible subfalcate. Palp formula 3,2. Frontal lobe expanded, completely covering antennal insertions. Antennal club with three antennomeres. Antennal scrobe absent. Eye drastically reduced, without conspicuous limits between ommatidia. Propodeum unarmed. Tarsal claw simple, without conspicuous preapical teeth nor a basal lobe. Petiole unarmed. Anterior face of abdominal segment III without an arched carina above the helcium.

Notes

Published as part of Camacho, G. P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M. G., Pie, M. R. & Longino, J. T., 2022, UCE Phylogenomics Resolves Major Relationships Among Ectaheteromorph Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A New Classification, pp. 1-20 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixab026, http://zenodo.org/record/10833830

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Biodiversity

Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Boltonia
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Asterales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Camacho and Feitosa
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Boltonia Camacho, 2022