Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 171-173; printable
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_008:171
- Open Access: CC BY 4.0
- Year: 2006
- Title: Description of the male of Acropyga paleartica Menozzi, 1936 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
- Journal: Myrmecological News
- Volume: 8
- Pages: 171-173
- Type of contribution: Original Article
- Supplementary material: No
- Abstract: The male of the single known European Acropyga, A. paleartica Menozzi, 1936, is described. With the discovery of the male of A. paleartica, a combination of worker and male morphological characters allows for the placement of the species within the A. arnoldi species group, which previously only contained a single species, A. arnoldi Santschi, 1926. A number of similarities exist between workers of the two species among those being: a high maxillary palp number (up to 5 segments), a high number of mandibular teeth (6 - 8), and a similarly shaped pronotum. The following similarities exist between males of the two species: high number of mandibular teeth, similarly shaped parameres and penis valves, and similarly shaped 9th sternite (= subgenital plate). A sister taxa grouping of the species is interesting because the mealybugs utilized by both of them are also thought to be sister taxa.
- Key words: Ant taxonomy, mealybugs, Palaearctic, trophobiosis, trophophoresy.
- Publisher: The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics
- ISSN: Print: 1994-4136 - Online: 1997-3500