A new species of carebara from the philippines with notes and comments on the systematics of the carebara genus group (hymenoptera: formicidae: myrmicinae)

A new myrmicine ant species from the Philippines, Carebara alperti n. sp., isdescribed with taxonomic notes about the genus. The new species is congruent withthe genus defi nition proposed recently by Fernández (2004). The myrmicine ant genusParvimyrma is synonymized under Carebara (n. syn.), and th...