Bothriomyrmex meridionalis

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Bothriomyrmex meridionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Bothriomyrmex
Species: B. meridionalis
Binomial name
Bothriomyrmex meridionalis
(Roger, 1863)

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Specimen Labels

Subspecies
Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 46.890232° to 33.593056°.

   
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Croatia, France (type locality), Georgia, Iberian Peninsula, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • meridionalis. Tapinoma meridionale Roger, 1863a: 165 (w.) FRANCE, SPAIN.
    • Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 2012b: 95), 3 paralectotype workers.
    • Type-locality: lectotype France: Monpellier, 1862 (Sichel), paralectotypes with same data.
    • [Note: other original syntype locality: Spain: Andalusia (no collector’s name).]
    • Type-depository: NHMW.
    • [Misspelled as meridinale by Mayr, 1863: 455.]
    • André, 1882b: 218 (q.m.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1951: 190 (l.).
    • Combination in Bothriomyrmex: Mayr, 1870b: 954.
    • Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 13; Mayr, 1863: 455; Dours, 1873: 166; Forel, 1874: 61 (in key); André, 1874: 185 (footnote); Mayr, 1877: 11; Emery & Forel, 1879: 454; Mayr, 1880: 30; André, 1881b: 64; André, 1882b: 218 (in key); Forel, 1886e: clxvii; Forel, 1889: 256; Nasonov, 1889: 26; Forel, 1890a: lxviii; Saunders, E. 1890: 203; Emery, 1891b: 15; Dalla Torre, 1893: 170; Forel, 1895d: 227; Ruzsky, 1902d: 19; Ruzsky, 1903b: 308; Ruzsky, 1905b: 484; Bondroit, 1910: 489; Karavaiev, 1912a: 15; Emery, 1913a: 28; Forel, 1915d: 42 (in key); Emery, 1916b: 213; Bondroit, 1918: 88; Santschi, 1919i: 204; Müller, 1921: 48; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923: 249; Ruzsky, 1923: 3; Müller, 1923b: 110; Soudek, 1925b: 16; Emery, 1925e: 7 (redescription); Vandel, 1926: 196; Karavaiev, 1927a: 293; Arnol'di, 1933b: 601 (in key); Ceballos, 1956: 309; Cagniant, 1966b: 280; Bernard, 1967: 264 (redescription); Kutter, 1968b: 205; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 76; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 57; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 279 (in key); Shattuck, 1994: 35; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Espadaler, 1997b: 27; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 20 (in key); Bračko, 2006: 144; Markó, Sipos, et al. 2006: 66; Petrov, 2006: 103 (in key); Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 130; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowsky, 2009: 478; Lapeva-Gjonova, et al. 2010: 33; Csösz, et al. 2011: 58; Legakis, 2011: 23; Seifert, 2012b: 95 (redescription); Borowiec, L. 2014: 23 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 108; Arcos, Chavez, et al. 2022: 10.
    • Senior synonym of hispanica: Seifert, 2012b: 95.
    • Distribution: France, Morocco, Portugal, Spain.
    • Current subspecies: nominal plus hungaricus, marocanus.
  • hispanica. Bothriomyrmex meridionalis var. hispanica Santschi, 1922a: 66 (w.q.) SPAIN.
    • Type-material: lectotype queen (by designation of Seifert, 2012b: 95), 1 paralectotype worker.
    • [Note: Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 78, cites 2w, 1q syntypes NHMB; Shattuck, 1994: 34, cites 2w syntypes NHMB.]
    • Type-locality: lectotype Spain: Ciudad Real, Pozuela (A. Cabrera y Diaz), paralectotype with same data.
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • Menozzi, 1922b: 330 (m.).
    • Subspecies of meridionalis: Menozzi, 1922b: 330; Ceballos, 1956: 309.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1925e: 10; Collingwood, 1978: 87 (in key); Shattuck, 1994: 34; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Espadaler, 1997b: 27.
    • Junior synonym of meridionalis: Seifert, 2012b: 95.

Description

References

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