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Taylor — Ant Genus Aulacopone 
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Figure 5. Aulacopone relicla , female, Mt Gugljaband, Azerbaydzhan. Details of 
left-hand humeral pits. Steroscopic pair, scanning electron micrographs, magnifica¬ 
tion ca. X 1,000. 
explain the remarkable survival of this species as an apparently rare 
relict in Azerbaydzhan. 
Despite the circumstances of its original collection, there is little 
reason to suppose that A. relicta is a social parasite of Lasius emargi- 
natus, although its bionomics might include cleptobiosis or lestobio- 
sis, and the clypeal structure could be related to the latter. 
The desirability of collection and study of further material of this 
exceptional ant provides a great challenge to Soviet myrmecology. 
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