Published December 31, 2010 | Version v1
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Myrmecina undefined

Description

Myrmecina sp. ir-abpari-01 and ir-ghaemshahr-01

Material: 8 $, Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests, Ghaemshahr (36°22'16''N, 52°50'53''E), 155 m asl, 4.VI.2008, leg. Omid Paknia; 4?, Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests, Abpari (36°30'05''N, 51°55'58''E), 308 m asl, 22.VI.2008, leg. Omid Paknia.

Remarks: The genus Myrmecina Curtis consists of about 40 described species distributed in the Holarctic, South and Southeast Asia, Australia and South America. It is absent in the Afrotropical and Malagasy Regions. The highest speciosity occurs in the Oriental Region. In the western Palaearctic, there are four known species distributed from the Iberian Peninsula and Algeria to the Transcaucasus and the Middle East. This genus is new to Iran.

Notes

Published as part of Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Pfeiffer, M., 2010, New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran., pp. 29-38 in Asian Myrmecology 3 on page 34

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Biodiversity

Event date
2008-06-04 , 2008-06-22
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Myrmecina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
undefined
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2008-06-04 , 2008-06-22