Sifolinia, Emery

Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174 : 58

publication ID

6175

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283762

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67E735DC-1B13-C414-0DAB-07B678756CC9

treatment provided by

Christiana

scientific name

Sifolinia
status

 

Genus Sifolinia   HNS Emery, 1907

Sifolinia   HNS Emery, 1907:49.

Type-species: Sifolinia laurae Emery   HNS , 1907.

Queen. General shape as in Myrmica   HNS but antennal scape relatively thick; mid and hind tibiae with pectinate spurs reduced or absent. Both petiole and postpetiole are produced ventrally into blunt projections.

Male. General shape as in Myrmica   HNS but lacking mid and hind tibial spurs. Antennae 12 segmented. Postpetiole with a blunt ventral projection, petiole thickened and swollen without defined projection. Notauli with posterior portion of Y tail reduced or absent. Wing venation of Myrmica   HNS type but variable and often reduced.

This is a genus of workerless ants parasitic on Myrmica   HNS species, with 4 or 5 species known from the palaearctic region only.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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