Simopone chapmani Taylor

Bolton, Barry & Fisher, Brian L., 2012, Taxonomy of the cerapachyine ant genera Simopone Forel, Vicinopone gen. n. and Tanipone gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) 3283, Zootaxa 3283 (1), pp. 1-101 : 71

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3283.1.1
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7321441A-FFB3-FF92-13F8-7AEDC7347435
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Simopone chapmani Taylor
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Simopone chapmani Taylor View in CoL

Simopone chapmani Taylor, 1966: 287 View in CoL . Holotype worker, PHILIPPINES: Negros I., Horns of Negros , 3600 ft. (J.W. Chapman) (MCZC) [examined].

The holotype and only known specimen of this species is fragmented and mounted on three card triangles on a single pin: head on top triangle, mesosoma + AII + AIII on middle triangle, AIV to apex on bottom triangle. The species was compared to gressitti View in CoL by Taylor (1966) but the following features of chapmani View in CoL deserve mention.

Antennal scrobe narrow but deep, apex of scrobe deflected ventrally as a triangular impression immediately in front of the anterior margin of the eye; scape very short, SI 33; metapleuron traversed by a sulcus that continues the line of the mesopleural sulcus; AII distinctly longer than broad (AIIW/AIIL 0.86); side of AII without a curved longitudinal carina between the dorsolateral margin and the level of the spiracle; AII longer than AIII in dorsal view; AIII longer than postergite of AIV.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Formicidae
Genus	Simopone