DOI: https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_012:251

Open Access: CC BY 4.0

Author:

Shattuck, S. & Janda, M.



Year: 2009

Title:

A new species of the Camponotus auropileus Viehmeyer, 1914 species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Papua New Guinea



Journal: Myrmecological News

Volume: 12

Pages: 251-253

Type of contribution: Original Article

Supplementary material: No

Abstract:

The Camponotus aureopilus Viehmeyer, 1914 species group contains nine known species from Papua New Guinea and Australia. Recently a tenth species, Camponotus royi sp.n., has been discovered from west-central Papua New Guinea rainforests. This new species is described and the key to this species group modified to accommodate it.

Open access, licensed under CC BY 4.0. © 2009 The Author(s).



Key words:

Taxonomic description, Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Camponotus royi, new species, Papua New Guinea.



Publisher: The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics

ISSN: Print: 1994-4136 - Online: 1997-3500