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Genus: Mystrium   Roger, 1862 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

14 species

Mystrium Roger, 1862a PDF: 245. Type-species: Mystrium mysticum, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Mystrium in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 715 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 16 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 15.
Mystrium in Amblyoponinae: Forel, 1893b PDF: 162.
Mystrium in Pachycondylinae, Amblyoponini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 283.
Mystrium in Ponerinae, Amblyoponini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 766; Emery, 1901b PDF: 34; Wheeler, 1910a: 134; Emery, 1911e PDF: 22; Forel, 1917 PDF: 235; Wheeler, 1922: 640; all subsequent authors to the following.
Mystrium in Amblyoponinae, Amblyoponini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 42, 155.
Genus Mystrium references
Roger, 1863b: 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: 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, Hölldobler & Alpert, 1998: 241 (mandible morphology); Shattuck, 1999: 192 (Australia synopsis); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012 PDF: 16 (male diagnosis); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2014 PDF: 1 (female, male diagnosis; Malagasy keys).

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:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Eastern Africa, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Sangha-Mbaéré, South, South-West, Western Africa
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, East Sepik, Northern, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua, Papua Barat, Papua New Guinea, Queensland
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Banten, Borneo, Brunei, Camarines Sur, India, Indonesia, Laguna, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sulawesi Selatan, Sulawesi Utara, Tamil Nadu, Vietnam, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Fianarantsoa, Grande Comore, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Mayotte, Mohéli, Toamasina, Toliara
Oceania Region: Melanesia
Palearctic Region: China, Eastern Asia

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Mystrium   Roger, J., 1862, Einige neue exotische Ameisen-Gattungen und Arten., Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 6, pp. 233-254: 245-246, (download) 245-246 4098
Mystrium   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) 1 21332
Mystrium   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 6734
Mystrium   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) 11 21332
Mystrium   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 6734


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