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.
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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.
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