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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 43.283889° to 24.633333°.
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality), Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Türkiye.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
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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
Queen
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- thoracicus. Formica thoracica Fabricius, 1804: 397 (q.) “North Africa”.
- Type-material: holotype queen.
- [Note: Zimsen, 1964: 424, cites only a single specimen.]
- Type-locality: North Africa: (“Habitat in Barbaria Dom. Stubb. Mus. Dom. Lund.”) (no further data).
- [Note: “Barbaria” = North African coast from Morocco to Libya.]
- Type-depository: ZMUC.
- [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Formica thoracica Olivier, 1792: 503 (Emery, 1921a: 25; Bolton, 1995b: 127).]
- Emery, 1908a: 193 (s.w.m.).
- Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 2;
- combination in C. (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1913d: 434;
- combination in C. (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925b: 99.
- Junior synonym of maculatus: Roger, 1862c: 285; Mayr, 1863: 400; Roger, 1863b: 2; Mayr, 1865: 27; Gerstäcker, 1871: 355; Arnold, 1922: 621.
- Subspecies of maculatus: Forel, 1906c: 189; Forel, 1907a: 30; Forel, 1907e: 16; Emery, 1908a: 193; Forel, 1910a: 13; Karavaiev, 1910b: 9; Santschi, 1910f: 234; Karavaiev, 1911: 11; Forel, 1911d: 359; Karavaiev, 1912a: 21; Forel, 1913d: 434; Forel, 1914d: 250; Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1916: 173; Stitz, 1917: 351; Crawley, 1920b: 178; Arnold, 1922: 630; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 959; Viehmeyer, 1923: 93; Karavaiev, 1926e: 189.
- Subspecies of compressus: Emery, 1920c: 6; Santschi, 1921a: 116; Santschi, 1921d: 73; Emery, 1924a: 8; Emery, 1925b: 99; Santschi, 1925g: 356; Menozzi, 1927e: 117; Wheeler, W.M. 1927g: 114; Menozzi, 1927g: 380; Santschi, 1929g: 165; Menozzi, 1932e: 453; Menozzi, 1933b: 80; Finzi, 1936: 189; Santschi, 1939d: 78; Menozzi, 1940: 271; Finzi, 1940: 163; Donisthorpe, 1942a: 32; Donisthorpe, 1950e: 1067; Hamann & Klemm, 1967: 418.
- Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 31; Emery, 1920b: 256; Pisarski, 1971a: 674; Bernard, 1971: 9; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 236; Collingwood, 1985: 283; Bolton, 1995b: 127; Cagniant, 1996b: 99; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 374; Mohamed, Zalat, et al. 2001: 44; Cagniant, 2006a: 194; Paknia, et al. 2008: 153; Collingwood, et al. 2011: 451; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8; Karaman, C. & Aktaç, 2013: 53 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 43; Tohmé, G. & Tohmé, 2014: 138.
- Senior synonym of dichrous: Emery, 1908a: 193; Emery, 1925b: 99; Bolton, 1995b: 127.
- [Note: if synonymy confirmed then dichrous is the first available replacement name.]
- Distribution: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
- [Note: distribution based on Borowiec, L. 2014: 43.]
- dichrous. Camponotus sylvaticus var. dichrous André, 1882a: 145.
- [First available use of Camponotus sylvaticus subsp. maculatus var. dichrous Forel, 1879a: 65 (w.) ALGERIA; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- Type-material: syntype minor workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: Algeria: Biskra (no collector’s name) (received from Emery).
- Type-depository: MHNG (perhaps also MSNG).
- Forel, 1886e: clxi (m.); Forel, 1890a: lxv (q.); Bingham, 1903: 356 (s.).
- Subspecies of sylvaticus: Forel, 1886e: clxi.
- Subspecies of rubripes: Forel, 1890a: lxv.
- Subspecies of maculatus: Emery, 1891b: 19; Forel, 1892j: 243; Forel, 1893b: 432; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 228, 241 (footnote); Forel, 1894d: 41; Emery, 1894j: 9; Emery, 1896d: 371 (in list); Emery, 1898a: 225; Emery, 1898c: 149; Forel, 1902a: 158; Forel, 1904b: 379; Ruzsky, 1905b: 199.
- Subspecies of barbaricus: Cagniant, 1970c: 30.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 228; Bingham, 1903: 356; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 253; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 63 (error).
- [Note: the entries in Bingham, and in Karmaly & Narendran, from India, are probably misidentifications.]
- Junior synonym of maculatus: Forel, 1886f: 143.
- Junior synonym of thoracicus: Emery, 1908a: 193; Emery, 1925b: 99; Bolton, 1995b: 96.
- [Note: if synonymy confirmed then dichrous is the first available replacement name for Formica thoracica Fabricius, 1804: 397, unresolved junior primary homonym of Formica thoracica Olivier, 1792: 503.]
Description
References
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