A new species of the ant genus Myopias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Sumatra
The genus Myopias Roger, 1861 is poorly known due to its cryptic lifestyle and nesting habits. Seven species of this genus have been recorded from Sumatra. A new, eighth species, M. paratenuis sp. nov. is described herein based on the worker caste. The new species is most similar to M. tenuis (Emery, 1900) from New Guinea, M. minima (Jaitrong et al., 2018) from Thailand, and M. suwannaphaki (Jaitrong et al., 2020) from Borneo.
Authors
- Robby Jannatan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7595-4368)
- Rijal Satria (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7597-8180)
- Sofia Ery Rahayu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1239-2174)
- A. Anchyar
Institutions
- State University of Malang (ID)
- State University of Padang (ID)
- Andalas University (ID)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zoosystematica Rossica
- Published
- 2025-11-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2025.34.2.279
- Primary Topic
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00