Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea) of the Vistula escarpment in Warsaw

Abstract

*[About 4000 ants from18 species on the escarpment were caught on 11 plots in 1976-1977 using Barber pitfall traps. Ant communities occurring in seminatural woodlots of the Vistula escarpment in Warsaw were studied. This area is a potential site of a linden-oak-hornbeam forest (Tilio-Carpinetum). The species composition, community structure, and zoogeographical and ecological profile of myrmecofauna were determined. The myrmecofauna of the escarpment was compared with the myremecofauna typical of managed urban green of Warsaw and with the myrmecofauna typical of natural linden-oak-hornbeam forests of the Mazovian Lowland.]