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First European record of a queen ant carrying a mealybug during her mating flight

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  1. Institut für Zoologie, Fachbereich Biologie, der Technischen Hochschule, D-6100, Darmstadt

    A. Buschinger, J. Heinze & K. Jessen

  2. Zoologiska Institutionen, Avdelningen för Systematik, Lunds Universitet, S-223, 62 Lund

    P. Douwes

  3. Fachbereich 2 (Biologie) der Universität, D-2800, Bremen

    U. Winter

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Thanks are due to D.J. Williams, Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, for the identification of the Eumyrmococcus species, and to L. Passera and H. Cagniant, Tolouse, for helpful suggestions on behalf of the Plagiolepis species.

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Buschinger, A., Heinze, J., Jessen, K. et al. First European record of a queen ant carrying a mealybug during her mating flight. Naturwissenschaften 74, 139–140 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366526

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