Broadly sympatric occurrence of two thief ant species Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798) and S. juliae (Arakelian, 1991) in the East European Pontic-Caspian region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) is disclosed

• Published in: ZooKeys Vol. 1187; pp. 189 - 222
• Main Authors: Csősz, Sándor, Seifert, Bernhard, László, Márk, Yusupov, Zalimkhan M., Herczeg, Gábor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 21.12.2023
• Subjects: neotypes; Solenopsis molesta; sympatry

This paper presents numeric morphology-based evidence on the broadly overlapping distribution of two thief ant species Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798) and S. juliae (Arakelian, 1991) in the East European Pontic-Caspian region. The paper integrates two autonomous data collections and independent a...