Open AccessRedescription of the Ant Leptothorax (S. STR.) Scamni Ruzsky, 1905
Author(s) -
Jürgen Heınze,
ANDREA SCHULZ,
Alexander Radchenko
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
psyche a journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1687-7438
pISSN - 0033-2615
DOI - 10.1155/1993/63287
Subject(s) - ant , biology , zoology , evolutionary biology , ecology
Worker and queen caste of the ant Leptothorax (sensu stricto)scamni Ruzsky, 1905 are formally described and a neotype is designated.The species is distinguished from other Leptothorax (s. str.) by extraordinarily long, finger-shaped propodeal spines. L. scamni appears to be a rather rare, patchily distributed ant inalpine coniferous forests in the Caucasus (Russia and Armenia)and northern Turkey
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