Published December 31, 1979 | Version v1
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Harpagoxenus

Description

Genus Harpagoxenus Forel, 1893

Harpagoxenus Forel, 1893: 167.

Type-species: Myrmica sublaevis Nylander, 1849.

Workers and queens. Head large, subrectangular with broad edentate mandibles. Both petiole and postpetiole have strongly developed ventral tooth-like projections. Palp formula 5:3. Antennae 11 segmented.

Male. Similar to Leptothorax acervorum but with ventral projecting tooth on postpetiole as in female castes. Antennae 12 segmented.

This genus contains at most 2 or 3 palaearctic and 1 North American species living in semi-parasitic dulotic relationship with members of the closely related genus Leptothorax

Notes

Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 78

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Harpagoxenus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
sublaevis
Taxon rank
genus