Strongylognthus huberi FOREL 1874

Kiran, K. & Aktaç, N., 2006, The Vertical Distribution of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Samanlı Mountains, Turkey, Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (2), pp. 1105-1122 : 1105-1122

Strongylognthus huberi FOREL 1874

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: 47, º.

R e m a r k s S. huberi , which has distribution from Switzerland, Pyrenees, Apennines, Alps and Iberian peninsula ( FOREL 1874; EMERY 1909; CONSANI 1947; BERNARD 1968) and moreover south Russia, Uzbekistan ( RUZSKY 1896), is different from the other species of S. huberi group recorded from Turkey by having more punctuated-reticulate microsculpture of workers’ dorsum of petiol and postpetiols. Host of the only one worker taken from cultivated olive area couldn’t be found. By expanding the study in the locality, nests of Tetramorium ferox and T. chefketi were found but no parasitic species were found in these nests. New record for Turkey.

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