Temnothorax jailensis (lat.) - a species of small ants of the tribe Formicoxenini from the subfamily Myrmicinae of the family Formicidae . Found in eastern Europe : endemic of the mountainous Crimea . Small reddish-brown ants (workers 2-3 mm, females about 5 mm). Propodeal spines on metatarsal developed. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of two segments: the petiolus and postpetiolus (the latter is clearly separated from the abdomen), the sting is developed, pupae are naked (without cocoon). Mountain forests at an altitude of 600-900 m, nests in wood. The species was first described in 1977 by the Soviet worldmecologist Konstantin Vladimirovich Arnoldi based on materials collected by him in the mountain Crimea in 1947 [2] [3] .
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See also
- Temnothorax affinis
Notes
- ↑ Arnoldi K.V. New and little-known species of ants of the genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the European part of the USSR and the Caucasus (Russian) // Entomological review : Journal. - 1977. - Vol. 56. - P. 198-204. (p. 200, description of working individuals)
- ↑ Radchenko, AG A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 3. Groups nylanderi, korbi, nassonovi, and susamyri (English) // Vestn. Zool. : Journal. - 1995. - Vol. 4. - P. 3-11. (page 11, description of the female)
- ↑ Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. III. Hymenoptera. The first part // Suborder Apocrita - Calf-bellied ( Arnoldi K.V. et al.) / Under the general. ed. G. S. Medvedev . - L .: Nauka, 1978.- 584 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 119). - 3500 copies.
Literature
- Radchenko A. A review of the ant genera Leptothorax Mayr and Temnothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Eastern Palaearctic (Eng.) // Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae: Journal. - 2004. - Vol. 50, no. 2 . - P. 109-137.