Bothriomyrmex turcomenicus
Bothriomyrmex turcomenicus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Genus: | Bothriomyrmex |
Species: | B. turcomenicus |
Binomial name | |
Bothriomyrmex turcomenicus Emery, 1925 |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 38° to 37.666667°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Kazakhstan (type locality), Russian Federation, Turkmenistan.
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. |
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- turcomenicus. Bothriomyrmex syrius subsp. turcomenicus Emery, 1925e: 11, fig. A4 (w.) TURKMENISTAN.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- [Notes (i): Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 78, and Shattuck, 1994: 37, cite 1w syntype NHMB; (ii) Radchenko, Fisher, et al. 2024: 281, cite 3w syntypes SIZK.]
- Type-locality: Turkmenistan: Merv, Bagir (N. Kusnezov).
- Type-depositories: MSNG, NHMB, SIZK.
- [Misspelled as turcomanicus by Pisarski, 1970: 319, Dlussky, 1981a: 17.]
- Subspecies of syria: Pisarski, 1967: 406; Pisarski, 1970: 319; Dlussky, 1981a: 17; Shattuck, 1994: 37; Seifert, 2012b: 102.
- Status as species: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 171; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Borowiec, L. 2014: 24.
- Distribution: Afghanistan, Turkmenistan.
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.
- Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990 [1989]. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkhabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. (page 171, raised to species)
- Dubovikoff, D.A., Yusupov, Z.M. 2017. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
- Emery, C. 1925c. Les espèces européennes et orientales du genre Bothriomyrmex. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 5-22 (page 11, fig. A4 worker 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.
- Dlussky G. M., O. S. Soyunov, and S. I. Zabelin. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.
- Dubovikoff D. A., and Z. M. Yusupov. 2018. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
- Emery, C. "Les espèces européennes et orientales du genre Bothriomyrmex." Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56 (1925): 5-22.
- 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.