Saturday 14 June 2008

German ant collections

Another place visited; another list of ants collected. This time the area covered is a small part of Bavaria, as a result of a visit to the University of Regensburg. This list will develop over the next few weeks, as I have numerous specimens to look at. Once I have identified everthing I will send a full list of the records to the university and to any other interested parties.

It is possible to accurately identify some of the species listed in the field, so not all were actually collected. Some of them were collected by Marion Füßl, who found many species before I did and thus proved to be a very useful person to have around! Others were collected with a group of researchers from the university, who very kindly spent their public holiday showing me around. Yet more were collected by Christiane Wanke over the past few years and passed to me to identify.

Though I was not aiming specifically to collect rare species, the letters in red relate to species the German Red Data List (from: Seifert, 2007).

Dolichoderinae
     Dolichoderus
          quadripuntatus RLD3
Formicinae
     Camponotus
          ligniperda
     Formica
          cunicularia
          fusca
          pratensis
          rufa
          rufibarbis
          sanguinea
     Lasius
          alienus
          brunneus 1
          emarginatus
          flavus
          fuliginosus
          niger
          platythorax
     Plagiolepis
          vindobonensis RLD2
Myrmicinae
     Leptothorax
          acervorum
     Myrmecina
          graminicola
     Myrmica
          lobicornis RLD3
          rubra
          ruginodis
          rugulosa
          sabuleti
          scabrinodis
          schencki RLD3
          specioides RLD3
     Solenopsis
          fugax RLD3
     Stenamma
          debile
     Tapinoma
          erraticum RLD3
     Temnothorax
          affinis
          corticalis RLD2
          crassispinus
          interruptus RLD3
          parvulus RLD3
          saxonicus RLD2
          tuberum RLD2
          unifasciatus
     Tetramorium
          impurum



1 Colony found containing the myrmecophilous woodlouse Platyarthrus hoffmannseggi.

1 comment:

Jochen Bihn said...

Nice collection for such a short trip. I guess it was a lot of work to organize the necessary permits for the collection of red list species. For that reason I rarely collect on holidays.