First record of the vulnerable social parasite ant Plagiolepis grassei in Italy (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Enrico Schifani

doi:10.4081/fe.2017.231

	First record of the vulnerable social parasite ant Plagiolepis grassei in Italy (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Enrico Schifani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/fe.2017.231
Enrico Schifani Section Animal Biology, Department STEBICEF, University of Palermo, Italy \| enrsc8@gmail.com
Abstract The first Italian records of the rare parasitic ant species Plagiolepis grassei Le Masne, 1956 are here reported. This species is considered as “Vulnerable” by the IUCN’s Red List, and was previously recorded from France and Spain only. Keywords geographic distribution, conservation, rarity, IUCN Red List, myrmecology, Sicily
Full Text: PDF HTML
Submitted: 2017-06-29 14:10:30 Published: 2017-06-30 08:20:35 Search for citations in Google Scholar Related articles: Google Scholar