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  • There are a number of butterflies that live at least part of their life in close association with ant species. ...s of the family Lycaenidae may have an association with ants at some stage of their development (Pierce, 1987; Fiedler, 1996, 2006).
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  • ...les await discovery and for many the nature of the relationship with their host is unknown. [[File:Maculinea rebell.jpg|thumb|left|400px|Mountain Alcon Blue (''Phengaris rebeli'')]]
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  • ...orsal plane of scape, and by a somewhat narrower frons. However, the males of these two species are practically indistinguishable. ...thern Kazakhstan, Altai Mts.; all previous records of ''M. sabuleti'' east of Ural Mts. belong to ''M. Zonae'' (see Radchenko 1994d).
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  • ...Seifert (2018) suggests that this parasitic relationship may not require host queen killing by ''M. vandeli''. ...type series for more than 50 years, until Kutter (1977) described workers of this species from Switzerland. Elmes and Thomas (1985) showed that it is a
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  • Host for the Mountain Alcon Blue (''Phengaris rebeli'') butterfly. ...' quite often was confused with ''[[Myrmica lobicornis]]'', though workers of the latter have the wider frons (FI > 0.27), shorter propodeal spines, and
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  • .... salina'' inhabits relatively, wet, often halophytous biotopes in steppes of West Siberia and Kazakhstan. (Radchenko and Elmes 2010) ...hort standing hairs on the scape and tibiae. On the other hand, the worker of ''M. salina'' well differs from ''[[Myrmica curvithorax]]'', which have muc
    22 KB (2,927 words) - 07:34, 26 January 2024
  • ...oped reticulation. Additionally, the second funicular segment of the males of ''M. gallienii'' is more than 1.5 times longer than the third one, while in ...]], [[Lithuania]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Netherlands]], [[Poland]], [[Republic of Moldova]], [[Romania]], [[Russian Federation]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]],
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  • ...butterfly (''Phengaris arion''). Note that the ‘‘West-Mediterranean” form of ''M. sabuleti'' (Seifert, 1988) is now known as ''[[Myrmica spinosior]]'' ( ...]'', ''[[Myrmica vandeli]]'' and ''[[Myrmica bibikoffi]]'', by the absence of long erect to suberect hairs on the head margins.
    88 KB (11,813 words) - 07:36, 30 January 2024
  • A wide ranging species that occurs in a variety of habitats. In Greece it is uncommon although recorded from all mainland prov ...ll forms that cannot be clearly discriminated by a combination of features of all three castes. Even now, we suppose that “''M. scabrinodis''” includ
    113 KB (15,003 words) - 07:37, 30 January 2024
  • A widespread species that forms small colonies of 200-300 workers. ...tures can be very variable between local populations and can overlap those of ''schencki''-group species.
    57 KB (7,492 words) - 07:34, 26 January 2024
  • A widespread transpalaearctic species that can be common in a variety of habitats. ...on between the two species in the field is to examine the length and shape of the spines (seen in profile) with a x10 hand lens.
    112 KB (15,206 words) - 07:34, 26 January 2024
  • ...y of its earlier names), though quite possibly some of the earlier studies of ''M. scabrinodis'' might have been made on ''M. specioides''. It has recent ...rugulosa]]'' and some others). The taxonomy of this species has a history of confusion and is not yet finally resolved, we would not be surprised if mod
    54 KB (7,096 words) - 07:38, 30 January 2024
  • ...e spread in tropical and subtropical areas. In Japan, it nests in the soil of grassland on seashores and lowlands (Onoyama, 1989); rarely encountered ([h A member of the [[Myrmica_Species_Groups#rubra group|''rubra'' group]]. Yellowish brown
    136 KB (18,339 words) - 07:37, 2 February 2024