New Species: Lordomyrma vanua

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New Species: Lordomyrma vanua

January 31, 2008 by myrmecos

Lordomyrma vanua Lucky & Sarnat 2008
Fiji

image by A. Lucky & E. Sarnat

Last week’s Zootaxa contained a excellent short paper by Andrea Lucky and Eli Sarnat describing a pair of new Lordomyrma species, including the beautiful L. vanua pictured above. As is true of most insects, Lordomyrma vanua remains a largely unknown quantity. It has been collected just twice, both times from the island of Vanua, in Fiji, for which it is named.

Source: Lucky, A. & E. M. Sarnat. 2008. New species of Lordomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Southeast Asia and Fiji. Zootaxa 1681: 37-46.

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Posted in Ants, Insect Links, Science, Taxonomy | 5 Comments

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on February 1, 2008 at 3:56 pm New Ant Species Discovered in Malaysia and Fiji « Good Tithings

[...] new ant species, a member of the genus Lordomyrma, discovered. Not the sexiest creature, but kinda cool none the less. And there’s more. It should not [...]
on February 1, 2008 at 5:19 pm abyssalleviathin

It’s always a delight when a new species is discovered. Thanks for news about the discovery.
on February 4, 2008 at 8:17 pm calevphoto

My wife and I have been thinking about going to Fiji recently… Perhaps I’ll get a chance to take a shot of one if I get lucky. That’s one place at least that she has no problems going to.
on July 22, 2008 at 11:46 pm Jon Sarnat

When are we going to get a Sarnat Ant already?
on January 18, 2009 at 11:15 am Bob

Is it harmless?