Satria R.1,2*, Egushi K.3 2024. Notes on the genus Myrmoteras Forel, 1893 (Formicidae: Formicinae) from Sumatra: a new species, new record and new description of queens // Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.21. No.2: 210–220 [in English].
1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, 25131, Indonesia.
2 Biodiversity of Sumatra Research Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, 25131, Indonesia.
3 Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan.
* Corresponding author
Rijal Satria rijalsatria@yahoo.co.id , rijalsatria@fmipa.unp.ac.id ORCID 0000-0002-7597-8180
Katsuyuki Eguchi antist2007@gmail.com ORCID 0000-0002-1054-1295
doi: 10.15298/invertzool.21.2.08
ABSTRACT: The species list of the ant genus Myrmoteras Forel, 1893 from Sumatra, Indonesia was updated with a total of six species. We described and illustrated Myrmoteras yamanei sp.n. based on the worker caste from the highland of Sumatra, reported M. tonboli Agosti, 1992 as newly recorded from Sumatra and illustrated, and described the hitherto unknown queens of M. baslerorum Agosti, 1992 and M. tonboli Agosti, 1992. The worker-based key to Sumatran species of the genus Myrmoteras is also provided.
KEY WORDS: ants, alpha-taxonomy, Indonesia, highland.