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Issue: Vol. 1471 No. 1: 10 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1471.1.1
Page range: 1–14
Abstract views: 51
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Description of two new Temnothorax species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)  from Italy

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Erbprinzenstr. 13, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
Biologie I, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
Biologie I, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
Hymenoptera Formicoxenini species diversity taxonomy of ants radiation European fauna

Abstract

We describe two species of the ant genus Temnothorax: T. alienus nov. spec. and T. saxatilis nov. spec. Both new species are endemic to middle and southern Italy. We characterize the two species and compare them to similar Temnothorax from Italy and the Western Palaearctic.

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