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Emery, 1884: 380, q, Algeria;
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: 279, w (in Key);
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: 71, m;
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: 711; all subsequent authors.
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Emery, 1884: 380, q, Algeria;
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: 71, m;
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: 711; all subsequent authors.
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afer; order:
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,
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; minimumElevationInMeters: 535; locationRemarks: on the border of light oak forest, in a nest of
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hungaricum
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SEM images: Fig.
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Vulnerable D2 ver. 2.3 (
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)
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was described by
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, based on a single queen from Algeria, workers and males being later described from Algeria and Tunisia by
<bibRefCitation author="Forel, Auguste" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft" pageId="0" pageNumber="65742" pagination="267 - 287" refId="B6777934" refString="Forel, Auguste, 1900. Fourmis du Japon. Nids en toile. Strongylognathus huberi et voisins. Fourmiliere triple. Cyphomyrmex wheeleri. Fourmis importees. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 10: 267 - 287" title="Fourmis du Japon. Nids en toile. Strongylognathus huberi et voisins. Fourmiliere triple. Cyphomyrmex wheeleri. Fourmis importees." volume="10" year="1900">Forel (1900)</bibRefCitation>
and
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, respectively; finally,
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Sanetra and
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(2001)
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recorded this species in many localities in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
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, in all studied sites, infested colonies of
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Andre, 1883 (
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Sanetra and
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2001
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). Workers of this species are very small, the propodeum bearing small and blunt tubercles instead of sharp dents and the head dorsum and mesosoma are generally smooth and shiny (
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,
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Sanetra and
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2001
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).
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One nest sample of workers, together with the host species
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, was collected in the Eastern Rhodopes on the border of light oak forest and a pasture with a southern exposure (Fig. 4) at an altitude about 550 m. Collected workers morphologically fit well with the main characteristic features of
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, but are even smaller than the specimens from Algeria and Morocco, as well as workers of
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Radchenko, 1991 and, apparently, are the smallest known workers of the
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species-group (compare Table
<tableCitation captionStart="Table 1" captionStartId="T6774633" captionText="Table 1. Measurements (in mm) and indices of the investigated species of Strongylognathus huberi - group. Measured material: S. bulgaricus: Eastern Rhodopes, Dolna kula (17 workers); Kardzhali (2 workers); S. huberi dalmaticus: Eastern Rhodopes, Meden Buk; S. italicus: Eastern Rhodopes, near Chernichino vill.; S. afer: Eastern Rhodopes, Gaberovo vill." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/CE1BB36018301FCD4FAF26F042E10D62" pageId="0" pageNumber="65742" tableUuid="CE1BB36018301FCD4FAF26F042E10D62">1</tableCitation>
and data in
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