Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2022)
Extant: 14 valid species
Taxonomic history
Roger, 1863b PDF: 20 (catalogue);
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 436 (catalogue);
Mayr, 1865 PDF: 16 (diagnosis);
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 15 (catalogue);
Emery, 1911e PDF: 22 (diagnosis, catalogue);
Wheeler, 1922: 758, 1006 (Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues);
Menozzi, 1929e PDF: 518 (diagosis, all species revision, key);
Brown, 1960a: 169 (review of genus);
Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35 (Australia catalogue);
Taylor, 1987a PDF: 47 (Australia checklist);
Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051 (census);
Bolton, 1995b: 287 (catalogue);
Gronenberg et al., 1998 PDF: 241 (mandible morphology);
Shattuck, 1999: 192 (Australia synopsis);
Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 PDF: 16 (male diagnosis);
Yoshimura & Fisher, 2014 PDF: 1 (Madagascar species revision and identification key, female and male diagnosis);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 102 (brief male diagnosis)
Taxon Page Images:
Mystrium mysticum has an unusual caste system. These odd ants are dimorphic, with a small red caste that appears to work mostly in the brood nest and a larger, dark caste that performs most of the foraging and guarding of the nest. Interestingly, the ants that perform as reproductive queens are drawn from the smaller caste. Madagascar.
Image ©
Alex Wild.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Comoros,
Ghana,
Ivory Coast,
Madagascar,
Mayotte,
Mozambique Asia: Borneo,
Brunei,
China,
India,
Indonesia,
Malaysia,
Myanmar,
Philippines,
Singapore,
Vietnam Oceania: Australia,
Papua New Guinea Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Australasia,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Afrotropical,
Australasia,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Roger, J., 1862, Einige neue exotische Ameisen-Gattungen und Arten., Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 6, pp. 233-254: 245-246, (download) |
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Bihn, J. H. & Verhaagh, M., 2007, A review of the genus Mystrium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Australian region., Zootaxa 1642, pp. 1-12: 1, (download) |
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Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 114-116, (download) |
114-116 |
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Bihn, J. H. & Verhaagh, M., 2007, A review of the genus Mystrium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Australian region., Zootaxa 1642, pp. 1-12: 11, (download) |
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Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 117-118, (download) |
117-118 |
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