Temnothorax gracilicornis (Emery)

Espadaler, X., 2007, The ants of El Hierro (Canary Islands)., Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions., Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80, pp. 113-127 : 119

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21278

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6245857

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scientific name

Temnothorax gracilicornis (Emery)
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12. Temnothorax gracilicornis (Emery)   HNS

(5, w q; males eclosed in the laboratory). Three colonies from this Canarian endemic were collected: two were nesting under mosses on a stone; the third was nesting under a small stone. The morphology and coloration of workers and queens fits the description of L. gracilicornis   HNS , not of the darker and shinier var. nivarianus   HNS Santschi, that Wellenius (1955) collected at Frontera. As I have not seen type material of both taxa and samples from Tenerife show varying coloration from yellow to brownish, thus including both names and body surface shininess, I refer the samples of El Hierro to the nominal species. This is not a formal proposal of synonymy.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Temnothorax

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