ZooKeys (Jan 2014)

Temnothorax pilagens sp. n. – a new slave-making species of the tribe Formicoxenini from North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

  • Bernhard Seifert,
  • Isabelle Kleeberg,
  • Barbara Feldmeyer,
  • Tobias Pamminger,
  • Evelien Jongepier,
  • Susanne Foitzik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.368.6423
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 368, no. 0
pp. 65 – 77

Abstract

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A new species of the ant genus Temnothorax Forel, 1890 – Temnothorax pilagens sp. n. is described from eastern North America. T. pilagens sp. n. is an obligate slave-making ant with two known hosts: T. longispinosus (Roger, 1863) and T. ambiguus (Emery, 1895). A differential diagnosis against Temnothorax duloticus (Wesson, 1937), the other dulotic congener from the Nearctic, is presented and a biological characteristics of the new species is given.