Mesostruma

Mesostruma
Mesostruma eccentrica worker, holotype
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Mesostruma Brown, 1948
Type species
Strumigenys turneri Forel, 1895
Diversity[1]
9 species

Mesostruma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.^[2] It is restricted to Australia.^[3]

Species

• Mesostruma bella Shattuck, 2000
• Mesostruma browni Taylor, 1962
• Mesostruma eccentrica Taylor, 1973
• Mesostruma exolympica Taylor, 1973
• Mesostruma inornata Shattuck, 2000
• Mesostruma laevigata Brown, 1952
• Mesostruma loweryi Taylor, 1973
• Mesostruma spinosa Shattuck, 2007
• Mesostruma turneri (Forel, 1895)

References

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Mesostruma". AntCat. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
2. "Genus: Mesostruma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
3. Shattuck, S. O. 2000. "Genus Colobostruma. Genus Mesostruma. Genus Epopostruma." Pp. 31-67 in: Bolton, B. 2000. "The ant tribe Dacetini." Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 65: 1-1028

External links

• Media related to Mesostruma at Wikimedia Commons