Abstract
A new species of the ant genus Temnothorax Forel, 1890 - Temnothorax pilagens sp. n. is described from eastern North America. T. pilagens sp. n. is an obligate slave-making ant with two known hosts: T. longispinosus (Roger, 1863) and T. ambiguus (Emery, 1895). A differential diagnosis against Temnothorax duloticus (Wesson, 1937), the other dulotic congener from the Nearctic, is presented and a biological characteristics of the new species is given. © Bernhard Seifert et al.
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Seifert, B., Kleeberg, I., Feldmeyer, B., Pamminger, T., Jongepier, E., & Foitzik, S. (2014). Temnothorax pilagens sp. n. - a new slave-making species of the tribe Formicoxenini from North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys, 368, 65–77. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.368.6423
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