A new ant genus in Iceland

These ants have been found recently inside an apartment in Reykjavík. They belong to the hyperdiverse genus Pheidole, which comprises more than 1200 described species and is characterized by two castes of workers: major and minor. It is hard to say at this stage at which species these ants belong, and we will further investigate, but we believe this to be a significant discovery for our research.

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