title: Australasian ants of the subfamily Heteroponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): (2) the species-group of Heteroponera relicta (Wheeler),with descriptions of nine new species and observations on morphology, biogeography and phylogeny of the genus.
abstract: Workers and available gynes of Heteroponera relicta and nine new related morphospecies from northeast Queensland tropical rainforest are described in two species complexes: H. relicta (Wheeler), H. darlingtonorum, H. lioprocta, H. monteithi, H. rhodopygea, H. viviennae and H. wilsoni spp. n. (Heteroponera relicta complex); H. ecarinata, H. pendergrasti and H. trachypyx spp. n. (Heteroponera ecarinata complex). Known gynes (of 3 relicta-complex species) are flightless physogastric ergatoids. Biogeography and evolution of the group and of Heteroponera at large are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Honorary Fellow, National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, Canberra.; Email: bob.taylor@homemail.com.au.
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D010802:Phylogeny; D011793:Queensland; D013045:Species Specificity