Review of the ant genus Nesomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in southern Africa.

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Mbanyana, N., Robertson, H. G. (2008): Review of the ant genus Nesomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in southern Africa. African Natural History 4: 35-55, URL: http://antbase.org/ants/publications/23052/23052.pdfMembersofthe genusNesomyrmex in southern Africa are small, non-dominant, myrmicine ants that nest either in trees (angulatus-group) or in soil (simoni-group). Of the twenty species recorded from this region, the following 15 are newly described: antoinetteae,cederbergensis,entabeni,ezantsi,inye,karooensis,koebergensis,larsenae,mcgregori,nanniae,njengelanga,ruani,saasveldensis,tshiguvhoae and vannoorti. All Nesomyrmex species recorded from southern Africa are described and illustrated, with accompanying information on biology and distribution.Key words: Nesomyrmex,Leptothorax, ants, southern Africa, Nama-Karoo, Succulent Karoo, Fynbos.