DOI: https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_008:257

Open Access: CC BY 4.0

Author:

Czechowski, W. & Radchenko, A.



Year: 2006

Title:

Formica lusatica Seifert, 1997 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), an ant species new to Finland, with notes on its biology and the description of males



Journal: Myrmecological News

Volume: 8

Pages: 257-262

Type of contribution: Original Article

Supplementary material: No

Abstract:

A taxonomically problematic ant species from southernmost Finland, so far determined as Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793 or / and F. cunicularia Latreille, 1798, is identified as Formica lusatica Seifert, 1997. This is the first report of this species from Finland. Aspects of the biology of F. lusatica under the local conditions, and especially its relations with Formica sanguinea Latreille, 1798, are presented and the description of its males is given.

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Key words:

Ants, Formica lusatica, Formica sanguinea, fauna, taxonomy, description of male, ecology, social parasitism, Finland.



Publisher: The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics

ISSN: Print: 1994-4136 - Online: 1997-3500