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An undescribed species ofMyrmica collected in Idaho has been shown to have the same substances in its mandibular glands (3-octanol and 3-octanone and related 3-alkanols and 3-alkanones) and in its Dufour gland (linear alkanes, alkenes, and farnesene isomers and homologs) as previously examined European species ofMyrmica. The poison gland contains the trail pheromone 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, common to allMyrmica species studied so far. The Dufour gland contains large amounts of bishomofarnesene, which easily distinguishes it from some 13 otherMyrmica already known.
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Jackson, B.D., Keegans, S.J., Morgan, E.D. et al. Chemotaxonomic study of undescribed species ofMyrmica ant from Idaho. J Chem Ecol 17, 335–342 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00994336
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