Biology:Aulacopone

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Short description: Genus of ants

Aulacopone
Aulacopone relicta casent0172182 profile 1.jpg
Sputter-coated (i.e. the golden color is not natural) A. relicta queen to be used in scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Heteroponerinae
Tribe: Heteroponerini
Genus: Aulacopone
Arnol'di, 1930
Species:
A. relicta
Binomial name
Aulacopone relicta
Arnol'di, 1930

Aulacopone is a genus of ant in the subfamily Heteroponerinae containing the single species Aulacopone relicta.[1] The genus was described by Arnoldi (1930) from a unique dealate female collected at Ələzəpin (Alazapin), near Lankaran, in Azerbaijan S.S.R., Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan), near its border with Iran. The specimen was taken in galleries of the formicine ant Lasius emarginatus, under the bark of an oak stump, in mid-montane forest.[2]

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