Seifert Bernhard, Kleeberg Isabelle, Feldmeyer Barbara, Pamminger Tobias, Jongepier Evelien, Foitzik Susanne
Senckenberg Museum for Natural History Goerlitz, Am Museum 1, D - 02826 Goerlitz, Germany.
Evolutionary Biology, Department Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Johannes von Müller Weg 6, D - 55099 Mainz, Germany.
Zookeys. 2014 Jan 8(368):65-77. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.368.6423. eCollection 2014.
A new species of the ant genus Temnothorax Forel, 1890 - Temnothorax pilagens sp. n. is described from eastern North America. T. pilagens sp. n. is an obligate slave-making ant with two known hosts: T. longispinosus (Roger, 1863) and T. ambiguus (Emery, 1895). A differential diagnosis against Temnothorax duloticus (Wesson, 1937), the other dulotic congener from the Nearctic, is presented and a biological characteristics of the new species is given.
1890年,蚁属(Temnothorax Forel)发现了一个新物种——Temnothorax pilagens sp. n.,它来自北美东部。Temnothorax pilagens sp. n.是一种专性蓄奴蚁,已知有两个宿主:长棘蚁(T. longispinosus,罗杰,1863年)和歧义蚁(T. ambiguus,埃默里,1895年)。文中还给出了与来自新北区的另一种蓄奴蚁Temnothorax duloticus(韦森,1937年)的鉴别诊断,并介绍了该新物种的生物学特征。