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Mostly open xerothermous habitats, nests in soil
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Distribution Notes

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Throughout SLO except Alpine, mostly in Submediterranean
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Taxonomic History

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Extant: 3 valid subspecies

Formica pygmaea Latreille, 1798 PDF: 45 (w.q.) FRANCE. Palearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Schenck, 1852 PDF: 69 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c PDF: 135 (l.).Combination in Plagiolepis: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 43.Senior synonym of Plagiolepis dufourii: Menozzi, 1925a PDF: 19 (footnote).Senior synonym of Plagiolepis obscureiscapus: Boer, 2008 PDF: 486.See also: Stitz, 1939: 231; Kutter, 1977c: 185; Sharaf et al., 2011 PDF: 207.
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Diagnostic Description

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Records

(Map 47): Bulgaria ( Agosti and Collingwood 1987a , Atanassov and Dlusskij 1992 ); Western Stara Planina Mts: Chepan Mt. (Dragoman) ( Borisova et al. 2005 ); Eastern Stara Planina Mts: Sliven ( Forel 1892 ); Sofia Basin: Sofia ( Forel 1892 , Antonova 2005 , Antonova and Penev 2006 , 2008 ), the surroundings of Sofia ( Antonova and Penev 2006 ); Vitosha Mt. ( Atanassov 1952 ); Lozenska Planina Mt. ( Vassilev and Evtimov 1973 ); Bakadzhik-Burgas district: Aytos ( Forel 1892 ); Strandzha Mt. ( Atanassov 1936 , Antonova et al. in press ); Osogovska Planina Mt.: Hisarlaka ( Atanassov 1936 ); Dupnitsa Basin: Dupnitsa ( Forel 1892 ); Eastern Rhodopi Mts: Dedets vill. (Zlatograd), Byal Izvor vill. (Ardino), Momchilgrad, Beli Plast vill. (Kardzhali), Malko Popovo vill. (Madzharovo), Madzharovo, Zvezdel vill. (Momchilgrad), Zhelezino vill. (Ivaylovgrad), between Odrintsi vill. and Svirachi vill. (Ivaylovgrad), between Dabovets vill. and Kamilski dol vill. (Ivaylovgrad), Svirachi vill. (Ivaylovgrad) ( Lapeva-Gjonova 2004a ); Southern Black Sea coast: Burgas, Veselie vill. ( Forel 1892 ).

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Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena, 2010, Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria, ZooKeys, pp. 1-124, vol. 62
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Diagnostic Description

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- [[male]]. Long.; 2,7 mill. - Brunatre, Mandibules, scape, premier article du penicule, pattes et hanches jaunatre, reste du penicule brun rougeatre. Luisant, lisse avec une ponctuation piligere tres espacee et tres fine. Pubescence assez dense adjacente partout, sauf sur le penicule ou elle est plus relevee. Quelques longs poils sur le gastre autour de la bouche. Tete plus large que longue, surtout tres eloigne en arriere avec un bord occipital transversal (arrondi chez pygmaea ). Cotes de la tete tres arques. Le scape depasse de plus du tiers le bord occipital. Tous les articles du penicule sont distinctement plus long qu'epais. Le 2e article du penicule pres de deux fois plus longs qu'epais. Les yeux tres grands sont moins rapproches du bord de l'epistome que chez pygmaea . Thorax robuste, le mesonotum proemine moins en avant sur le pronotum. Ailes hyalines a nervures et taches jaunatres sont longues de 3.2 mill. Ecaille basse. Le stipes est plus court et plus large, la volsella et la sagitta ne depassent pas le stipe.

Teneriffe: Esperanza (Cabrera y Diaz 1903); recu avec une [[worker]] qui correspond a la description de M. Forel. Cependant il faut ajouter que le 3e article du funicule est plus long que chez l'ouvriere de pygmaea .

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Santschi, F., 1911, Formicides de diverses provenances., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, pp. 278-287, vol. 55
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Diagnostic Description

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Partout, de Gabès jusqu'au sommet des montagnes des environs de Souk-Ahras (environ 1600 mètres ).

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Forel, A., 1890, Fourmis de Tunisie et de l'Algérie orientale., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Comptes-rendus des Seances, pp. lxi-lxxvi, vol. 34
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Diagnostic Description

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Buchara (pres de Guzar, Tschaschma - Ufizan, 8 [[ worker ]], 29. IV; pres de Garm, Nimitschi-bole, 1 [[ worker ]], 20. VI; Feizabad - Baldzuan, 4, 26. V. 1897. Kaznakov!).

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Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, pp. 368-388, vol. 8
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Diagnostic Description

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- [[ worker ]]. - Jerusalem (Schmitz).

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Forel, A., 1910, Glanures myrmecologiques., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, pp. 6-32, vol. 54
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- [[ worker ]].

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Forel, A., 1910, Glanures myrmecologiques., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, pp. 6-32, vol. 54
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[[ worker ]] [[ queen ]]. Bulawayo, Rhodesia und Bembesi, Sued-Rhodesia (Arnold.) Diese afrikanischen Stuecke haben die Groesse der gewoehnlichen pygmaea, aber der Thorax und der Fuehlerschaft eher wie bei der v. punctum For.

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Forel, A., 1913, Ameisen aus Rhodesia, Kapland usw. (Hym.) Gesammelt von Herrn G. Arnold, Dr. H. Brauns und anderen., Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, pp. 203-225, vol. 1913
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Plagiolepis pygmaea

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Plagiolepis pygmaea is a species of ant in the genus Plagiolepis.[1] The species is widely distributed, from Portugal and the Canary Islands in the west, eastwards to Iran, Germany in the north and the Arabian peninsula in the south.[2]

Subspecies

  • P. p. bulawayensis Arnold, 1922
  • P. p. mima Arnold, 1922
  • P. p. minu Forel, 1911

References

  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Plagiolepis pygmaea". AntCat. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  2. ^ Boer, P. (2008). "Plagiolepis obscuriscapa Santschi, 1923, a junior synonym of Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798) and the use of pigmentation as a discriminating character in ant taxonomy". Zoologische Mededelingen. 82: 485–488.

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Plagiolepis pygmaea: Brief Summary

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Plagiolepis pygmaea is a species of ant in the genus Plagiolepis. The species is widely distributed, from Portugal and the Canary Islands in the west, eastwards to Iran, Germany in the north and the Arabian peninsula in the south.

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