Psyche: A Journal of Entomology (Jan 1993)

Redescription of the Ant Leptothorax (S. STR.) Scamni Ruzsky, 1905

  • J. Heinze,
  • A. Schulz,
  • A. G. Radchenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/1993/63287
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 100, no. 3-4
pp. 177 – 183

Abstract

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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 in alpine coniferous forests in the Caucasus (Russia and Armenia) and northern Turkey.