Metapone salomonis, Taylor, Robert W. & Alpert, Gary D., 2016

Taylor, Robert W. & Alpert, Gary D., 2016, The myrmicine ant genus Metapone Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a global taxonomic review with descriptions of twelve new species, Zootaxa 4105 (6), pp. 501-545 : 531

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.6.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DCB6A5BB-46C9-4D05-8B4A-C6E4CBABB6F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5641474
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087E7-4569-FFA5-FF3C-FAB8FEC04F41
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Metapone salomonis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

20. Metapone salomonis sp.n.

( Figs 106–110 View FIGURES 106 – 110 )

Type locality. SOLOMON ISLANDS: SAN CRISTOBAL: Wainoni Bay [10°68′S, 162°00′E].

Type deposition. ANIC (Type No. 32-069959).

Distribution, material examined. Solomon islands: san Cristobal (= Makira): Wainoni Bay, in flight, noon (P.J.M. Greenslade, 21;7;1965).

Gyne diagnosis. General and diagnostic features, sculpturation, pilosity and colour as illustrated and in the key to Melanesian and Pacific species above. Clypeus anteriorly rostrate, lateral margins of its posterior section converging anteriorly and indented on each side at the base of the narrower rostrum, anterior border concave, edentate, anterolateral corners in frontal view slightly raised, acute, almost right-angled, apices narrowly rounded. Subpetiolar angle in profile strongly obtuse, rounding to the subpetiolar edge, subpetiolar extension relatively very small, subsemicircular with tapered anterior border.

Dimensions: TL: (estimated) ca. 5.5–6mm; HL: 1.27, HW: 0.87, CpL: 0.46, CpI: 36, MSL: 1.97, PetL: 0.52, PetW: 0.43, PetH: 0.65. TL measurement is estimated (compare proportions of other species) because the specimen has lost its gaster.