Myrmica kotokui

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iMyrmica kotokui

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Division:	Rhopalocera
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Myrmicini
Genus:	Myrmica
Species:	kotokui

Binomial name

Myrmica kotokui

Myrmica kotokui (Japanese: Shiwa-kushike-ari) is a species of ant of the genus Myrmica.

This species is considered to closely resemble that of 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.

[edit] References

Forel, A. (1911) Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Kšniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse 1911: 249-303.

Azuma, N., Takahashi, J., Kikuchi, T., Yoshimura, M., Onoyama, K. & Higashi, "S. Microsatellite loci for Myrmica kotokui and their application in some congeneric ant species distributed in northern Japan." Molecular Ecology Notes 5 (1), 118-120.

Tomonori Kikuchi Ecological Entomology Vol. 27 Issue 4 Page 505 August 2002 Between- and within-population morphological comparisons of all castes between monogynous and polygynous colonies of the ant Myrmica kotokui