Myrmica kotokui
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| Myrmica kotokui Collingwood, 1976
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Myrmica kotokui (Japanese: shiwa-kushike-ari) is a species of ant of the genus Myrmica.
This species closely resembles the European Myrmica ruginodis and is perhaps not a separate distinctive species. Onoyama (1989) suggested that it might best be treated as a subspecies of M. ruginodis.
References
- Forel, A. (1911). "Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München" (PDF). Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse: 249–303.
- Azuma, N., J. Takahashi, T. Kikuchi, M. Yoshimura, K. Onoyama & S. Higashi (2005). "Microsatellite loci for Myrmica kotokui and their application in some congeneric ant species distributed in northern Japan". Molecular Ecology Notes. 5 (1): 118–120. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2004.00849.x.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Tomonori Kikuchi (2002). "Between- and within-population morphological comparisons of all castes between monogynous and polygynous colonies of the ant Myrmica kotokui". Ecological Entomology. 27 (4): 505. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00433.x.
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