Aulacopone

Aulacopone
Sputter-coated (i.e. the golden color is not natural) A. relicta queen to be used in scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ectatomminae
Tribe:	Heteroponerini
Genus:	Aulacopone Arnol'di, 1930
Species:	A. relicta
Binomial name
Aulacopone relicta Arnol'di, 1930

Aulacopone is a monotypic genus of ants in the subfamily Ectatomminae containing the single species Aulacopone relicta. The genus was described by Arnoldi (1930) from a unique dealate female collected at Ələzəpin (Alazapin), near Lankaran, in Azerbaijan S.S.R., Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan), near its border with Iran. The specimen was taken in galleries of the formicine ant Lasius emarginatus, under the bark of an oak stump, in mid-montane forest.

References

• Arnol'di, K. V. (1930). "Studien über die Systematik der Ameisen. IV. Aulacopone, eine neue Ponerinengattung (Formicidae) in Russland." Zoologischer Anzeiger 89:139-144.
• This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under a copyright license that allows anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the materials in any form for any purpose: Taylor, R. W. (1980). "Notes on the Russian Endemic Ant Genus Aulacopone Arnoldi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 86 (4): 353–361. doi:10.1155/1979/65643. Please check the source for the exact licensing terms.

External links

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