Formica selysi (lat.) - a type of medium-sized ants of the genus Formica ( Serviformica , Formicidae ).
| Formica selysi |
Worker ant formica selysi |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
| Hoard : | Insects with full transformation |
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| International Scientific Name |
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Formica selysi Bondroit, 1918 |
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- Formica torrentium Bernard, 1967
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Western Europe ( Austria , Albania , Germany , Spain , France , Switzerland , Switzerland ) [1] .
Length about 7 mm. The color of the working ant is one-color grayish black. Antennae 12-segmented in females and workers and 13-segmented in males. The pedicle between the chest and abdomen of all castes consists of one segment of the petiole . Scale stalk expands up [1] . Associated with the caterpillars of the blues butterfly Alexis ( Glaucopsyche alexis ) (Obregon et al. 2015) [2] .
It was first described in 1918 by the Belgian entomologist Jean Bondroit ( Jean Bondroit ; 1882-1952) under the original trinominal name Formica cinerea var. selysi Bondroit, 1918 based on materials from France [3] . In the status of a separate species since 1977, when it was established by the Swiss myrmecologist H. Kutter (Kutter, 1977) [1] .
- 2 1 2 3 Kutter, H. 1977. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. Insecta Helv. Fauna 6: 1-298 (page 253, upgrading to species)
- ↑ Obregon, R., MR Shaw, J. Fernandez-Haeger, and D. Jordano. 2015. Parasitoid and ant interactions of some Iberian butterflies (Insecta: Lepidoptera). - Shilap-Revista De Lepidopterologia. 43: 439-454.
- ↑ Bondroit, J. (1918). Les fourmis de france et de belique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 87: 1–174 (page 54, description of the worker).
