Bothriomyrmex breviceps
Bothriomyrmex breviceps | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Genus: | Bothriomyrmex |
Species: | B. breviceps |
Binomial name | |
Bothriomyrmex breviceps Santschi, 1919 |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 36.483333° to 34.74°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Tunisia (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species. |
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Estimated Abundance
Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
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Biology
Castes
Worker
Images from AntWeb
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Paralectotype of Bothriomyrmex breviceps. Worker. Specimen code casent0911469. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- breviceps. Bothriomyrmex breviceps Santschi, 1919i: 207, pl. 2, figs. 3, 4 (w.q.m.) TUNISIA.
- Type-material: lectotype queen (by designation of Seifert, 2012b: 101), 7 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype male.
- [Notes (i): original description cites 18w, 1q, 1m syntypes; (ii) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 78, and Shattuck, 1994: 32, cite only 10w syntypes NHMB.]
- Type-locality: lectotype Tunisia: La Ouareb, 21.xii.1910 (F. Santschi), paralectotypes with same data.
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- Status as species: Cagniant, 1968a: 145; Shattuck, 1994: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Seifert, 2012b: 101; Borowiec, L. 2014: 22.
- Distribution: Tunisia.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 81, catalogue)
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Santschi, F. 1919i. Fourmis du genre Bothriomyrmex Emery. (Systématique et moeurs.). Rev. Zool. Afr. (Bruss.) 7: 201-224 (page 207, pl. 2, figs. 3, 4 worker, queen, male described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Baroni Urbani C. 1977. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitt. Entomol. Ges. Basel (n.s.) 27: 61-102.
- Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Santschi, F. "Fourmis du genre "Bothriomyrmex" Emery (Systematique et moeurs)." Revue zoologique Africaine 7(3) (1919): 201-224.
- Seifert B. 2012. A review of the West Palearctic species of the ant genus Bothriomyrmex Emery 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 17: 91-104.
- Shattuck S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112: i-xix, 1-241.