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. Queen. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1041902, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map.
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. Neotype worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, CASENT0919632, AntWeb.org (Flavia Esteves). (C) Distribution map.
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TL
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; uniform black-brown to black; head with parallel sides and straight posterior margin in full-face view; eyes of medium size with about 7 ommatidia on longest row, located at midline of head in full-face view; anterior clypeal margin without anterior emargination; propodeal spines short, broadly denticulate, and upward directed; head and mesosoma regularly longitudinally striate; metanotal groove distinctly impressed; dorsum of petiolar node smooth or with feebly microreticulate; gaster smooth and shining.
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A Holarctic species geographically distributed from the
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to
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, North Africa to all of Europe (
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;
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Wagner
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), and presumably native to the Palaearctic (
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) or the
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(
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) regions. On the Arabian Peninsula it was recorded from the
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).
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The nesting habits of
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range from natural to urban environments (
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;
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). The natural habitats include the open borders of woodlands, meadows, pastures, heaths, arid or semi-arid grasslands, vineyards, fallow grounds, ruderal areas, road embankments, rock heaps, gravel pits, and riverbanks, while the urban territories include public parks, pavements, and roadsides (
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Klotz
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). Nests are constructed directly in the earth, under stones, or in rotten or dead wood (
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;
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) and there is frequently a single queen (monogyny) with thousands of workers (
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), or polygyny (
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). The species is a generalised seed harvester and an active predator on arthropods, and attends aphids for honeydew (
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;
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Wagner
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). A nest series at the
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Mountains (
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) was found in leaf litter and among grasses of the family
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and coexisting with a single worker of
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Santschi, 1910
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(
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