First Record of the Genus Myopias (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from India, with Description of New Species

Bharti H, Wachkoo A. A.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10058-012-0006-0

Abstract

Myopias shivalikensis Bharti et Wachkoo, sp. n. is described based on a single worker, collected in lower Shivalik range (700 m a. s. l.) of Northwest Himalaya by soil core method. The genus Myopias is recorded for the first time in India. M. shivalikensis is a cryptobiotic species with reduced body size and rudimentary eyes. It is similar to M. nops Willey et Brown, 1983, distinctly differing from all described species of this genus.

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