Aulacopone relicta

This species is only known from the holotype dealate queen (now apparently lost) and a single dealate queen coated for SEM work. Found in the forested areas of Azerbijan under bark, this ant remains a phylogenetic and behavioral mystery.

Distribution
This taxon was described from Azerbaijan.

town Gugulaband near Alekseyevka, Talysh Mtn.

Biology
This ant has been collected in only two locations in eastern Azerbijan, in the south in 1930 and in the north in 1936. Bob Taylor has published an account of the only known specimen remaining in the ANIC in Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  relicta. Aulacopone relicta Arnol'di, 1930a: 140, figs. 1-5 (q.) AZERBAIJAN. [Also described as new by Arnol'di, 1930d: 159.] See also: Brown, 1958g: 206; Taylor, 1980c: 353.

Additional References

 * [[Media:Arnoldi 1930.pdf|Arnol'di, K. V. 1930a. Studien über die Systematik der Ameisen. IV. Aulacopone, eine neue Ponerinengattung (Formicidae) in Russland. Zool. Anz. 89: 139-144]]


 * [[Media:Arnol'di 1948a.pdf|Arnol'di, K. V. 1948a. Ants of Talysh and the Diabar depression. Their importance for the characterization of communities of terrestrial invertebrates and for historical analysis of the fauna. Tr. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 7(2 2: 206-262 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Taylor 1980c.pdf|Taylor, R.W. 1980c. Notes on the Russian endemic ant genus Aulacopone Arnoldi. Psyche 86 (1979): 353-361. [19.xii.1980.] PDF]]