Lachnomyrmex

Lachnomyrmex amazonicus - Feitosa and Brandão 2008 The new world tropics continue to be a rich source of species discovery.  Today's issue of Zootaxa contains a monograph by Rodrigo Feitosa and Beto Brandão revising the ant genus Lachnomyrmex, a small yet delightfully wrinkled group of soil-dwelling ants.  Of the 16 species recognized in the new paper, ten were previously unknown.  For the mathematically-challenged, that's more than half. Lachnomyrmex amazonicus, pictured above, is one of the new species.  It has been recorded from lowland humid forests in the states of Amazonas, Para…