Notes on the Indo-Australian Basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera : Formicidae)

Abstract

Descriptions and figures are given of Rhopalothrix orbis, sp. nov., R. diadema Brown & Kempf, Eurhopalothrix procera (Emery), E. greensladei, sp. nov., E. isabellae (Mann), and E. szentivanyi, sp, nov., together with distributional and systematic notes on other species, and a key to the Indo-Australian fauna of tribe Basicerotini. R. orbis is the first species of its genus recorded from Australia. This paper supplements the world basicerotine monograph of Brown and Kempf [Studia ent. 3(1-4), 161-250 (1960).]