Temnothorax tamarae

This rare species is only known from the vicinity of its type locality, Daba, Georgia (Gratiashvili et al., 2014). It has been found enslaving (Csösz et al., 2015),  and  (Gratiashvili et al., 2014).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Georgia, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 *  tamarae. Epimyrma tamarae Arnol'di, 1968: 1811, fig. 11 (w.) GEORGIA. Combination in Myrmoxenus: Schulz & Sanetra, 2002: 162; in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2014: 15.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Gratiashvili N., A. Bernadou, M. Suefuji, B. Seifert, and J. Heinze. 2014. The Caucaso-Anatolian slave-making antMyrmoxenus tamarae (Arnoldi, 1968) and its more widely distributed congener Myrmoxenus ravouxi(André, 1896): a multidisciplinary comparison (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Org Divers Evol 14: 259267.
 * Gratiashvili N., Barjadze S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23: 130-146.
 * Heinze J., A. Buschinger, T. Poettinger, M. Suefuji. 2015. Multiple convergent Origins of workerlessness and inbreeding in the socially parasitic ant genus Myrmoxenus. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131023. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131023
 * Radchenko A. G. 1994. New species of ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from southern and eastern Palearctic. Zh. Ukr. Entomol. Tov. 1(2): 23-34.