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Table 2. Numbers of sagittal teeth in SS of Epimyrma kraussei Emery 1915 
(= E. vandeli Santschi 1927, = E. foreli Menozzi 1921), and of E. ravouxi Andre 
1896) from different populations. 
species / population 
min 
n teeth 
X 
max 
n sagittae 
checked 
E. kraussei 
no 14 Tignale 
11 
13.9 
16 
19 
no 12b Biolo 
10 
13.6 
16 
18 
no 1 Calpe 
10 
14.3 
19 
20 
no 19 Calabria {E.f.) 
12 
14.4 
18 
19 
no 5a Lauzerte (E.v.) 
11 
13.7 
17 
20 
E. ravouxi 
Bavaria (D) 
8 
11.5 
15 
19 
Nyons (F) 
10 
12.6 
15 
18 
Corsica (F) 
7 
10.3 
13 
18 
Swiss Valley (CH) 
10 
12.4 
18 
21 
the cuspis usually overlaps or at least reaches the digitus, with very 
few exceptions. 
The subgenital plates did not differ between populations or 
species. 
Male wing venation 
Wing venation in Epimyrma 92 is quite variable (Andre 1896, 
Kutter 1973). In $ forewings the radial cell is short and open, the 
cubital cell long and usually closed, the discoidal cell may be closed, 
open, or nearly lacking, and the recurrens can be complete, incom- 
plete, or absent. Reductions of wing venation need not be symmetri- 
cal in the two forewings of a specimen. We compared mainly the 
shape of the discoidal cells, which exhibits sizable differences 
between the species, but varies also within E.k. and E.r. considera- 
bly (Fig. 4). 
Thus, table 4 shows the numbers of wings with open or closed 
discoidal cell. This character apparently is not appropriate for a 
differentiation of species or populations. A slightly better distinc- 
tion is possible with the shape of the discoidal cell (table 4). In E. 
ravouxi this cell is near to quadratic, with a slightly shorter anterior 
border. This is also true for a good deal of the N’ltalian and the 
Spanish populations of E.k., but already in these populations, and 
more in the Calabrian (no 19, E.f) and the Lauzerte (no 5, E.v.) 
