# Promyopias > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Promyopias > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Promyopias.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promyopias > Source revision: 1340829905 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Genus of ants}} {{Speciesbox |image = Promyopias silvestrii casent0102926 profile 1.jpg |image_caption = ''Promyopias silvestrii'' worker from the Ivory Coast |genus = Promyopias |parent_authority = Santschi, 1914 | display_parents = 4 |species = silvestrii |authority = (Santschi, 1914) |synonyms = ''Myopias silvestrii'' Santschi, 1914 (type species)
''Promyopias asili'' Crawley, 1916 }} '''''Promyopias''''' is an [Afrotropical](/source/Afrotropical) [genus](/source/genus) of [ant](/source/ant) in the [subfamily](/source/subfamily) [Ponerinae](/source/Ponerinae) containing the single [species](/source/species) '''''Promyopias silvestrii'''''. The rare genus has previously been regarded as a separate genus, as a [subgenus](/source/subgenus) and as a provisional [synonymy](/source/Synonym_(taxonomy)), but was reinstated at genus-rank in 2008. ==Description== ''Promyopias'', known from the Afrotropics, is uncommon but widely distributed. Its diet, presumably termites but not actually demonstrated, may be more restricted or specialized than in ''[Centromyrmex](/source/Centromyrmex)''. The [morphology](/source/Morphology_(biology)) of the [mandible](/source/Mandible_(insect_mouthpart)) is unique and immediately identifies ''Promyopias silvestrii''. Males are unknown. ==Taxonomy== Santschi (1914) initially associated ''Promyopias'' with ''[Myopias](/source/Myopias)'', the latter a moderately sized genus widespread in the [Oriental](/source/Oriental), [Malesian](/source/Malesian) and [Austral](/source/Australia_(continent)) regions, because of supposed overall similarities in the form of the mandible and [clypeus](/source/Clypeus_(arthropod_anatomy)). It now seems certain that these similarities are the result of [convergence](/source/convergent_evolution) through the development of similar predatory behaviors and life styles in the two genera. Major characters of ''Myopias'' that differentiate it from ''Promyopias'' include: eyes usually present in worker (absent in one species); scape not flattened; [mesonotum](/source/mesonotum) sharply defined; spiniform [setae](/source/setae) entirely absent from middle and hind tibiae and basitarsi; helcium located at base of first [gastral](/source/gaster_(insect_anatomy)) segment; posterodorsal margin of helcium with a median emargination; prora an anteroventral tooth; stridulitrum present. During its history ''Promyopias'' has been regarded as a separate genus or as a [subgenus](/source/subgenus) of two other ponerine genera. The provisional [synonymy](/source/Synonym_(taxonomy)) of ''Promyopias'' with ''Centromyrmex'' proposed by Brown (1973) and accepted by Bolton (1994, 2003) was based on the presence and distribution of spiniform setae on the legs. Bolton & Fisher (2008) formally reinstated ''Promyopias'' at genus-rank. ==References== {{Reflist|24em|refs= {{cite web |url=http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Promyopias&rank=genus&project=allantwebants |title= Genus: Promyopias |website=antweb.org |publisher=[AntWeb](/source/AntWeb) |access-date=23 September 2013}} {{harvnb|Bolton|1994|p=164}} {{harvnb|Bolton|2003|p=160}} {{harvnb|Bolton|Fisher|2008|p=28}} {{harvnb|Bolton|Fisher|2008|p=30}} {{harvnb|Bolton|Fisher|2008|p=31}} {{harvnb|Brown|1973|p=184}} {{harvnb|Santschi|1914|p=323}} }} {{refbegin}} *{{citation |last1=Bolton|first1=B. |year=1994|title= Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World, 222 pp. Cambridge, Ma.}} *{{citation |last1=Bolton|first1=B. |year=2003|title= Synopsis and classification of Formicidae.|journal=Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute|volume=71|pages=1–370}} *{{citation |first1=Barry|last1=Bolton|first2=Brian L. |last2=Fisher |year=2008 |title=Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera ''Centromyrmex'' Mayr, ''Promyopias'' Santschi gen. rev. and ''Feroponera'' gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |journal=[Zootaxa](/source/Zootaxa) |volume=1929 |pages=1–37|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01929p037.pdf|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1929.1.1|doi-access=free }} *{{citation |last1=Brown|first1=W.L. Jr. |year=1973|title= A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. In Meggers, B.J., Ayensu, E.S. & Duckworth, W.D. (eds.). Tropical Forest Ecosystems in Africa and South America: a Comparative Review |pages=161–185}} *{{citation |last1=Santschi|first1=F. |year=1914|title= Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur ''F. Silvestri''.|journal=Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R |publisher=Scuola superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici |volume=8|pages=309–385}} *{{OA-attribution| {{citation|ref=none |first1=Barry|last1=Bolton|first2=Brian L. |last2=Fisher |year=2008 |title=Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera ''Centromyrmex'' Mayr, ''Promyopias'' Santschi gen. rev. and ''Feroponera'' gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |journal=[Zootaxa](/source/Zootaxa) |volume=1929 |pages=1–37|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01929p037.pdf|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1929.1.1|doi-access=free }} }} {{refend}} ==External links== *{{commonscat-inline|Promyopias silvestrii|''Promyopias silvestrii''}} {{Taxonbar|from1=Q14172257|from2=Q18580841}} Category:Ponerinae Category:Monotypic ant genera Category:Hymenoptera of Africa --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Promyopias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promyopias) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promyopias?action=history)). 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