Plagiolepis pygmaea

Plagiolepis pygmae
	Plagiolepis pygmae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	Plagiolepis
Species:	P. pygmaea
Binomial name
	Plagiolepis pygmaea; (Latreille, 1798)

Plagiolepis pygmaea is a species of ant in the genus Plagiolepis.[1] The species is widely distributed, from Portugal and the Canary Islands in the west, eastwards to Iran, Germany in the north and the Arabian peninsula in the south.[2]

Subspecies

P. p. bulawayensis Arnold, 1922
P. p. mima Arnold, 1922
P. p. minu Forel, 1911

References

Bolton, B. (2015). "Plagiolepis pygmaea". AntCat. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
Boer, P. (2008). "Plagiolepis obscuriscapa Santschi, 1923, a junior synonym of Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798) and the use of pigmentation as a discriminating character in ant taxonomy". Zoologische Mededelingen. 82: 485–488.

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[AntCat-1] Bolton, B. (2015). "Plagiolepis pygmaea". AntCat. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

[Boer_2008-2] Boer, P. (2008). "Plagiolepis obscuriscapa Santschi, 1923, a junior synonym of Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798) and the use of pigmentation as a discriminating character in ant taxonomy". Zoologische Mededelingen. 82: 485–488.