Psyche: A Journal of Entomology (Jan 1993)
Redescription of the Ant Leptothorax (S. STR.) Scamni Ruzsky, 1905
Abstract
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.