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Epimyrma ravouxi (André, 1896) | ||
| Familia | Formicidae | |
| Ordo | Hymenoptera | |
| Classis | Insecta | |
| Typus | Arthropoda | |
| Summary | Epimyrma ravouxi is a mountain Mediterranean stenotopic species connected with dry and warm grassland habitat. It is a social parasite, practicing slavery; its hosts are ants from the genus Leptothorax Mayr. In Poland it occurs only in the Pieniny Mountains, where together with its host species inhabits xerothermic and rock grasslands, nesting mostly in empty, dry stems of herbaceous plants, preferably Vincetoxicum hirundaria. A threat to its existence may be excessive overgrowing of scree with shrubs and trees. The permanent occurrence of population will be secured by conservation of tall-herb communities on the southern slopes of the Pieniny National Park. | |
| Literature | Buschinger A. 1989. Evolution, speciation, and inbreeding in the parasitic ant genus Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). J. Evol. Biol. 2: 265-283.  Buschinger A. 1990. Sympatric speciation and radiative evolution of socially parasitic ants - heretic hypotheses and their factual background. Z. Zool. Syst. Evolut.-forsch. 28: 241-260. Czechowska W. 1976. Myrmekofauna Pienińskiego Parku Narodowego (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). Fragm. faun. 21: 115-144. Czechowski W. 2002. Formicidae. Mrówki. W: Czerwona lista zwierząt ginących i zagrożonych w Polsce Z. Głowaciński (red.). Instytut Ochrony Przyrody PAN, Kraków, 62-65. Czechowski W., Czechowska W. 2000. Epimyrma ravouxi (André, 1896) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Pieniny Mts - notes on its occurence and biology. Fragm. faun. 43: 29-33.. Czechowski W., Radchenko A., Czechowska W. 2002. The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Poland. MIZ PAS, Warsaw: 200 + 1 pp. Day M.C. 1991. Towards the conservation of aculeate Hymenoptera in Europe. Nature and Environment Series, No. 51, Council of Europe Press, Strasbourg, 33 pp. Economic Commission for Europe 1991. European red list of globally threatened animals and plants and recommendations on its application as adopted by the Economic Commission for Europe at its forty-sixth session (1991) by decision D (46). United Nations, New York, 154 pp. Kostrakiewicz L. 1982. Zarys fizjografii Pienin. Klimat. W: Przyroda Pienin w obliczu zmian. Studia Naturae B, 30: 53-69. Pancer-Kotejowa E., Zarzycki K. 1976. Zarys fizjografii i stosunków geobotanicznych Pienin oraz charakterystyka wybranych biotopów. Fragm. faun. 21: 21-49. Pisarski B., Huflejt T., Garbarczyk H., Głogowski S., Kierych E., Marczak P., Sawoniewicz J., Skibińska E. 1992. Błonkówki Hymenoptera. W: Czerwona lista zwierząt ginących i zagrożonych w Polsce. Z. Głowaciński (red.). ZOP i ZN PAN, Kraków: 43-48. Seifert B. 1996. Ameisen: beobachten, bestimmen. Naturbuch Verlag, Augsburg, 352 ss. Wells S.M., Pyle R.M., Collins N.M. 1984. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, 632 pp. Woyciechowski M. 1985. Mrówki (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Małych Pienin - Karpaty. Acta zool. cracov. 28: 283-296. | |
| Author | Wojciech Czechowski, Wiesława Czechowska & Aleksandr Radchenko | |
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