Bothriomyrmex syria

Bothriomyrmex syria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Bothriomyrmex
Species:	B. syria
Binomial name
Bothriomyrmex syria Forel, 1910 Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 43.166667° to 33.53°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Greece, Israel, Lebanon (type locality), Montenegro, Türkiye.

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.

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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Lectotype of Bothriomyrmex meridionalis syria. Worker. Specimen code casent0911491. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Not part of a type series. Worker. Specimen code casent0913779. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MNHN, Paris, France.

Not part of a type series. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0913780. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MNHN, Paris, France.

Not part of a type series. Worker. Specimen code casent0913781. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MNHN, Paris, France.

Not part of a type series. Male (alate). Specimen code casent0913782. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MNHN, Paris, France.

Nomenclature

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

• syria. Bothriomyrmex meridionalis var. syria Forel, 1910a: 13 (w.) SYRIA.
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • [Notes (i): Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 78, and Shattuck, 1994: 37, cite 11w syntypes NHMB; (ii) Seifert, 2012b: 101, cites 6w syntypes MHNG.]
  • Type-localities: Syria: Anti Liban (G. de Kerville), Syria: Doummar (G. de Kerville).
  • Type-depositories: MHNG, NHMB.
  • Tohmé, H. & Tohmé, G. 1981: 97 (q.m.l.).
  • Subspecies of meridionalis: Emery, 1913a: 28; Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 172; Santschi, 1919i: 205.
  • Status as species: Emery, 1925e: 11 (redescription); Menozzi, 1933b: 78; Pisarski, 1967: 406; Pisarski, 1970: 319; Tohmé, H. & Tohmé, G. 1981: 97; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 279 (in key); Kugler, J. 1988: 258; Shattuck, 1994: 37; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Petrov, 2006: 103 (in key); Vonshak, et al. 2009: 38; Karaman, M.G. 2011b: 62; Legakis, 2011: 23; Seifert, 2012b: 101; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 470; Borowiec, L. 2014: 24; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 137; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2020: 3.
  • Distribution: Egypt, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Tunisia.

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., Salata, S. 2020. Review of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Jordan. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 29 (online 2): 1-26 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.3733156).
• Dubovikoff, D.A. and Longino, J. T. 2004. A new species of the genus Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa. 776:1-10. (page 3, queen, male described)
• Emery, C. 1925c. Les espèces européennes et orientales du genre Bothriomyrmex. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 5-22 (page 11, raised to species)
• Forel, A. 1910a. Glanures myrmécologiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 54: 6-32 (page 13, worker described)
• Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).
• Lenoir, A., P. D’Ettorre, P., Errard, C., Hefetz, A. 2001. Chemical ecology and social parasitism in ants. Annual Review of Entomology 46: 573–599.
• Menozzi, C. 1933b. Le formiche della Palestina. Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 12: 49-113 (page 78, see also)
• Ruano, F., Hefetz, A., Lenoir, A., Francke, W., Tinaut, A. 2005. Dufour's gland secretion as a repellent used during usurpation by the slave-maker ant Rossomyrmex minuchae. Journal of Insect Physiology 51, 1158–1164 (doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2005.06.005).
• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 112:i-xix, 1-241. (page 37, see also)
• Tohmé, H.; Tohmé, G. 1981. Contribution à l'étude systématique et biologique de Bothriomyrmex syrius (Forel), Formicoidea, Dolichoderinae [Hym.]. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 86: 97-103 (page 97, queen, male, larva described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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• Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2012. Ants of Greece - Checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 23(4): 461-563.
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• Emery, C. "Les espèces européennes et orientales du genre Bothriomyrmex." Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56 (1925): 5-22.
• Forel A. 1910. Glanures myrmécologiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 54: 6-32.
• Hage Chanine-Hanna N. 1981. Nouvelle description de Tapinoma simrothi var phoenicium (Emery) (Hym-Formicoidae-Dolichoderinae) sur les exemplaires de la région cotière de Hadath-Liban. Ecologia Mediterranea 7(1): 155-161.
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• 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.
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• Wheeler W. M., and W. M. Mann. 1916. The ants of the Phillips Expedition to Palestine during 1914. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60: 167-174.