LEPTOTHORAX-PARAXENUS NEW-SPECIES A WORKERLESS SOCIAL PARASITE FROM NORTH AMERICA HYMENOPTERA FORMICIDAE

Heinze, Jürgen and Alloway, T. M. (1991) LEPTOTHORAX-PARAXENUS NEW-SPECIES A WORKERLESS SOCIAL PARASITE FROM NORTH AMERICA HYMENOPTERA FORMICIDAE. Psyche (Cambridge) 98 (2-3), pp. 195-206.

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Abstract

Male, gynomorphic and intermorphic female or the myrmicine ant Leptothorax paraxenus are described. The new species apparently is a workerless social parasite, which lives in nests of Leptothorax sp. B of the L. "muscorum" (L. canadensis) complex. Colonies were found in Milton and Mississauga, Ontario [Canada], and in Bic, Quebec. L. paraxenus differs from other Leptothorax in its "inflated" petiole and a convex subpetiolar process.

Item Type:Article
Institutions: Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Evolution, Verhalten und Genetik (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze)
Keywords:Biogeography (Population Studies); Ecology (Environmental Sciences); General Life Studies; Morphology; Systematics and Taxonomy
Subjects:500 Science > 570 Life sciences
500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of Regensburg:No
Owner:Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
Deposited On:03 Jul 2009 12:00
Last Modified:20 Jul 2011 23:35
Item ID:8444
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