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Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-11
Page range: 231–249
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A taxonomic revision of the seed-harvester ant genus Pogonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Hispaniola

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA 85287-4501
Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 02138
disjunction Dominican Republic Greater Antilles Haiti myrmicinae Pogonomyrmecini Hymenoptera

Abstract

We revise species of seed-harvester ants in the genus Pogonomyrmex (subfamily Myrmicinae) that occur on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Three species are recognized: P. aterrimus Wheeler (new status), P. saucius Wheeler and Mann, and P. schmitti Forel. Pogonomyrmex schmitti sublaevigatus Wheeler (= schmitti) and P. schmitti darlingtoni Wheeler (= aterrimus) are synonomized. We also describe the queen of P. aterrimus and P. saucius, and provide information on biology, distribution maps, and a key to workers and queens.