Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, 1902

Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena, Csősz, Sándor & Mifsud, David, 2024, Further records of social parasitic ants in Europe and review of the Bulgarian species, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 123575-e 123575 : e123575-

Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, 1902

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BFUS-I-AG 001994 ; recordedBy: M. Langourov; individualCount: 1; sex: queen; preparations: pinned; occurrenceID: 2FEA08F5-DEFF-543A-8CD4-1A0D73257F30; Taxon: scientificName: Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, 1902 ; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Formicidae ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Bulgaria; county: Blagoevgrad; municipality: Strumyani; locality: Struma Valley, near Kamenitsa vill. ; minimumElevationInMeters: 170; maximumElevationInMeters: 240; decimalLatitude: 41.65; decimalLongitude: 23.167; Event: samplingProtocol: tree trap; startDayOfYear: 27-09 - 2002; endDayOfYear: 02-11 - 2002; habitat: xerothermophilic site with Quercus coccifera L.; Record Level: collectionID: BFUS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Notes

This is an active slave-making species on some Temnothorax species – T. lichtensteini (Bondroit, 1918) , T. graecus (Forel, 1911) T. korbi (Emery, 1924) , T. bulgaricus (Forel, 1892) and T. serviculus (Ruzsky, 1902) ( Buschinger and Douwes 1993, Schulz and Sanetra 2002, Bračko 2010). There was only one previous record of Myrmoxenus gordiagini from Bulgaria (Western Predbalkan, Reselets vill.) ( Buschinger and Douwes 1993).