Author(s): Markó, B. & Csősz, S.
Title: Die europäischen Ameisenarten (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) des Hermannstädter (Sibiu, Rumänien) Naturkundemuseums I.: Unterfamilien Ponerinae, Myrmicinae und Dolichoderinae
Year: 2002
Publication date: 2002-11-30
Volume: 94
Pages: 109-121.
Abstract: he ant material of the Natural History Museum in SibiuNagyszebenHermannstadt (Romania) is one of the most important collections in Romania. Although it does not contain a large number of specimens, its value is appreciated on the basis of its age (it was founded in the 19th century), and due to its valuable content: a part of the material comes from Paul Röszler who described a number of ant taxa, whose statuses are still unclear, and some of its type material is present in this collection. Due to the fact that the study of the ant material is possible only in Sibiu, the material was only once studied, but only partly and insufficiently.
The collection contains 780 specimens of 44 species. Thirty species come from Romania, including 29 from Transylvania and 19 from the surroundings of Sibiu, but there are species from Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and other countries. Several identified species are rare for the Romanian ant fauna: Myrmica rugulosa, M. specioides, M. lonae, M. salina, Tetramorium impurum, Leptothorax tuberum, L. affinis, L. clypeatus, Formicoxenus nitidulus, Crematogaster schmidti. Some of these species have never been published in the Romanian fauna up to now, e.g. Myrmica specioides, M. lonae, Leptothorax clypeatus, Formicoxenus nitidulus.Keywords: Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Sibiu, Romania
Subject: entomology
Journal: Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungariciJournal abbreviation: Annls hist.-nat. Mus. nat. hung.ISSN: 0521-4726Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, BudapestEditor(s): Matskási, I. & Merkl, O.