Plagiolepis vindobonensis Lomnicki

• Main Author: Collingwood, C. A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1979
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Formicidae; Plagiolepis; Plagiolepis vindobonensis; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6283874; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283874

Plagiolepis vindobonensis Lomnicki, 1925. Fig. 158. Plagiolepis vindobonenis Lomnicki, 1925: 78. Worker. Pale to dark brown, somewhat shining, with sparse pubescence. Erect hairs are present over head and alitrunk and more thickly distributed over gaster. Head about as long as broad; pronotum broad, about l'/i width of propodeum; gaster heartshaped, much broader than alitrunk; scale, nodal reduced. Third and fourth funiculus segments subequal, about twice as long as second segment. Scape over-reaching occiput by about 1/6 its length. Ocelli absent. Length: 1.0-2.0 mm. Queen. As worker but with broad flat alitrunk. Length: 3.0-4.0 mm. Male. Brownish black. Head broader than long; eyes prominent, set forward of midlength ofhead. Antennae 12 segmented with scape overreaching occiput by 1/5 its length, funiculus segments scarcely longer than broad. Length: 1.5-2.0 mm. Distribution. Central and Eastern Europe. Biology. This minute species lives in small isolated colonies nesting under flat stones usually with several queens. Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 110