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New ant species discovered in the Western Ghats
November 8 , 2017
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- Researchers have discovered new species of ant in the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala in Western Ghats.
- It has been named Tyrannomyrmex alii (T. alii), after eminent myrmecologist Musthak Ali, who is regarded as the India’s ‘ant man’.
- It belongs to Tyrannomyrmex, a rare tropical genus of ants
- Tyrannomyrmex is a rare myrmicine (subfamily of ants) ant genus that is distributed in the Indomalayan bio-region that extends from southern India and Sri Lanka to southeast Asia.
- alii has thus become the four species of the rare genus and the second one from India.
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