Aulacopone

Aulacopone
Sputter-coated (i.e. the golden color is not natural) A. relicta queen to be used in scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Heteroponerinae
Tribe: Heteroponerini
Genus: Aulacopone
Arnol'di, 1930
Species: A. relicta
Binomial name
Aulacopone relicta
Arnol'di, 1930

Aulacopone is a genus of ant in the subfamily Heteroponerinae containing the single species Aulacopone relicta.[1] The genus was described by Arnoldi (1930) from a unique dealate female collected at Ələzəpin (Alazapin), near Lankaran, in Azerbaijan S.S.R., Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan), near its border with Iran. The specimen was taken in galleries of the formicine ant Lasius emarginatus, under the bark of an oak stump, in mid-montane forest.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Genus: Aulacopone". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Taylor, R. W. (1980). "Notes on the Russian Endemic Ant Genus Aulacopone Arnoldi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 86 (4): 353–361. doi:10.1155/1979/65643.
  • Arnol'di, K. V. (1930). "Studien über die Systematik der Ameisen. IV. Aulacopone, eine neue Ponerinengattung (Formicidae) in Russland." Zoologischer Anzeiger 89:139-144.
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