New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran.
Author
Paknia, O.
Author
Radchenko, A.
Author
Pfeiffer, M.
text
Asian Myrmecology
2010
3
29
38
http://antbase.org/ants/publications/23045/23045.pdf
journal article
23045
Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1771)
Material: 1
C
,
Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests, Talysh
(
37°42'19''N
,
48°53'14''E
), 66 m asl,
6.VII.2008
, leg.
Omid Paknia
.
Remarks: The genus
Dolichoderus Lund
comprises more than 130 species, distributed in all zoogeographic realms except Africa and Madagascar. Only one species,
D. quadripunctatus
, is known from the western Palaearctic. Its range covers central and southern Europe, central and southern parts of eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Anatolia, southwest Siberia, and the Tien-Shan range in Central Asia and China. This genus is new to Iran