Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 30() 1987
The phylogeny of nuptial flights of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Abstract:
The flight activities of ants are presented basing on sexual casts caught during the whole growing season of 1982 on the summit of Wysoka Mt. (1052 m above sea level) in Małe Pieniny Mts (Polish Carpathians). Eight ant species were captured, among these six of seven species of the genus Myrmica Latreille and two of seven of the genus Leptothorax Mayr known from this region. The gathering of winged ants from many nests during nuptial flights and male-biased sex ratio of swarming ants was discussed. The method presented in this paper enables a complex estimation of the number of ants of chosen species.
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