Genus: Myopias

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

40 species, 2 subspecies

Myopias Roger, 1861a: 39. Type-species: Myopias amblyops, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Myopias in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 713 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 12 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 16.

Myopias in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e PDF: 94 [subtribe Plectroctenini]; Forel, 1917 PDF: 238; Wheeler, 1922: 650; all subsequent authors.

Myopias as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b PDF: 182 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389.

Myopias as genus: Willey & Brown, 1983 PDF: 249; all subsequent authors.

Genus Myopias references

Roger, 1863b: 19 (Myopias, Trapeziopelta catalogues); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 429, 457 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 11, 12 (Trapeziopelta, Myopias diagnoses); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 81 (Trapeziopelta diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 16, 43 (Myopias, Trapeziopelta catalogues); Emery, 1900b PDF: 313 (New Guinea Trapeziopelta species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 103 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e PDF: 93 (Trapeziopelta diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e PDF: 94 (diagnosis, catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 67, 75 (Asia Myopias, Trapeziopelta checklists); Willey & Brown, 1983 PDF: 274 (Australia species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 41 (Australia checklist); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 269 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 190 (Australia synopsis); Xu & Liu, 2012 PDF: 821 (China species key); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 111 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Xu, Burwell & Nakamura, 2014 PDF: 165 (Oriental species key); Probst, Guénard & Boudinot, 2015 PDF: 195 (global species key, male generic diagnosis)

Taxon Page Images:

Myopias tenuis worker foraging in a rotting log. Iron Range National Park, Queensland, Australia.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

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

Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Australian Capital Territory, Central, Eastern Highlands, Gulf, Madang, Morobe, New South Wales, Oceania, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Borneo, India, Indonesia, Krakatau Islands, Lampung, Malaysia, Myanmar, Negros Oriental, Philippines, Sabah, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi Utara, Sumatera Barat, Taiwan, Yunnan
Oceania Region: Melanesia
Palearctic Region: China, Eastern Asia, Jammu and Kashmir