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Epimyrma bernardi, n.sp. a new parasitic ant
... Other specific works on parasitism list some Iberian localities and species (Buschinger et al. , 1988bSanetra & Buschinger 2000). All the information available on this subject for the Iberian Peninsula is contained in certain fundamentally taxonomic works dealing with exclusively Iberian species (Espadaler 1982;Tinaut 1981Tinaut , 1990Tinaut et al. 1992;, the review by Espadaler and Restrepo (1983) on the genera Epymyrma and Chalepoxenus in the Iberian Peninsula, and the work of Buschinger (1995) on the biology of an endemic species Epymyrma bernardi. Recently, the authors of this article (see bibliography) studied the biology of another endemic species of the Iberian Peninsula, Rossomyrmex minuchae belonging to the subfamily Formicinae, not included in this work. ...
... First, it should be highlighted that we are following the criteria of Schulz & Sanetra (2002) concerning the priority of the name Myrmoxenus and that Epimyrma Emery 1915 is a junior synonym, as was established by these authors. This genus, distributed throughout central and southern Europe, Turkey, and North Africa, is comprised of 11 species: M. adlerzi (Douwes, Jessen & Buschinger 1988); M. africana (Bernard 1948); M. algeriana (Cagniant 1968); M. bernardi (Espadaler 1982);. M. birgitae (Schulz 1994); M. corsica (Emery 1895); M. kraussei (Emery 1915); M. ravouxi (André 1896), M. stumperi Kutter 1950;M. ...
... This species is characterized both in females and workers by their nearly absent sculpture. Workers have a superficial promesonotal suture and in dorsal view a small scutellum but without definite sutures (Espadaler 1982). ...
In this study, we include a total of 14 species of Myrmicinae parasitic ants from the Iberian Peninsula. For each species, we review the data available on their biology, especially in relation to parasitism, and update their distribution and taxonomic status. Among the most noteworthy results, we confirm the presence of Strongylognathus afer in the Iberian Peninsula and we considerably broaden the distribution range for such species as: Myrmoxenus ravouxi, Chalepoxenus kutteri and Anergates atratulus. This study underscores the lack of biological data for most of Iberian species within the genera Strongylognathus.
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