Two new dolichoderine ant genera from Madagascar: Aptinoma gen. n. and Ravavy gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Fisher, B. L. (2009): Two new dolichoderine ant genera from Madagascar: Aptinoma gen. n. and Ravavy gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2118: 37-52, URL: http://hol.osu.edu/reference-full.html?id=22780AbstractThe Malagasy dolichoderine ant genera Aptinoma and Ravavy and the following species are newly described: Aptinoma mangabe sp. n. (type species), Aptinoma antongil sp. n., and Ravavy miafina sp. n. (type species). A key to the five dolichoderine genera of the Malagasy region based on workers is presented.Key words: Afrotropical, Malagasy endemics, arthropods, ants, Ravavy, Aptinoma, taxonomy, Dolichoderinae