Adetomyrma cassis

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Adetomyrma cassis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Adetomyrma
Species:
A. cassis
Binomial name
Adetomyrma cassis
Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012

Adetomyrma cassis (from Latin cassis, "helm", referring to the shape of its genital capsule) [1] is a species of ant endemic to Madagascar.

Description

Adetomyrma cassis is only known from a single male collected in the Ambatovaky Reserve, Madagascar. The male of A. cassis is distinguished easily from other Adetomyrma males by a distinct and flatted projection on the posterior portion of the paramere. This projection is not separated from the paramere by a deep notch as in A. bressleri . This genital character observed in Adetomyrma cassis is completely unique and sufficient to regard this male as a distinct species. [1]

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