Myrmica kotokui

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Myrmica kotokui
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Myrmica
Species: kotokui
Binomial name
Myrmica kotokui
Collingwood, 1976

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 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. 
  • Tomonori Kikuchi (2002 Between- and within-population morphological comparisons of all castes between monogynous and polygynous colonies of the ant Myrmica kotokui). {{{title}}}. Ecological Entomology 27 (4): 505. 

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