Preview: Seifert, B. 2007: Die Ameisen Mittel- und Nordeuropas. – lutra Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Tauer, 368 pp. [€ 39.00; Isbn 978 3 936412 03 1] Dr. Jens Dauber, Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, United Kingdom. E-mail: fbsjda@leeds.ac.uk Eager anticipation has captured the myrmecological community – at least the German speaking part of it – over the last few months. First it was only a rumour but now it is for sure: The "New Seifert" is published! Why is this remarkable? Why the excitement? The first edition of this book (Seifert 1996) was a great aid to many myrmecologists interested in the Central European ant fauna. Since many genus-groups have been revised and some new species have been identified (many of them by Bernhard Seifert himself; Seifert 1988a, b, 1992) in the years after the publishing of the keys by…