Carebara oertzeni

Carebara oertzeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Carebara
Species:	C. oertzeni
Binomial name
Carebara oertzeni (Forel, 1886)
Subspecies
Carebara oertzeni aeolia Forel, 1911

This rarely encountered ant was collected in Albania (Purkart et al., 2019) at a location situated next to a canyon of the river Lengaricës, where rocky slopes are covered with small areas of forest-steppe. The specimens were retrieved from a sample of rotten wood, leaf litter and soil taken from a decaying tree, and the collected material was then heat extracted from the sample using Tullgren funnels. Proceratium melinum was also found in this same sample.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 41.683333° to 41.683333°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Albania, Greece (type locality), 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

Queen

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Carebara oertzeni. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0908910. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Syntype of Carebara oertzeni aeolia. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0908911. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

• oertzeni. Oligomyrmex oertzeni Forel, 1886e: clxv, fig. 3 (q.) GREECE.
  • Type-material: holotype queen.
  • Type-locality: Greece: Western Morea, Elide (E. von Oertzen).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Combination in O. (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924d: 218;
  • combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
  • Karaman, C. & Kiran, 2017: 639 (w.m.).
  • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 75; Emery, 1909a: 36; Emery, 1924d: 218; Ettershank, 1966: 124; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 265 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 300; Petrov, 2006: 84 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 14; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 485; Borowiec, L. 2014: 50 (see note in bibliography); Karaman, C. & Kiran, 2017: 639 (redescription); Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 13.
  • Distribution: Greece, Turkey.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus aeolia.

Description

Salata and Borowiec (2018) - Described from Elis province of Peloponnese (now Western Greece region).

References

• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 235, Combination in Carebara)
• Forel, A. 1886c. Diagnoses provisoires de quelques espèces nouvelles de fourmis de Madagascar, récoltées par M. Grandidier. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 30:ci-cvii. (page clxv, fig. 3 queen described)
• Karaman, C., Kiran, K. 2017. First record of Carebara oertzeni Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the European part of Turkey with worker description. Turkish Journal of Zoology 41: 638-644 ( DOI 10.3906/zoo-1604-39).
• Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).
• Purkart, A., Jablonski, D. & Christophoryová, J. 2019. First record of Carebara oertzeni Forel, 1886 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Albania. Natura Croatica 28, 173-176 (DOI 10.30302/NC.2019.28.17).
• Salata, S., Borowiec, L. 2018. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum, Entomology 27(online 008):1-51 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.2199191).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Agosti, D. and C.A. Collingwood. 1987. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 60: 51-62
• 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.
• Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2017. Ants of the Peloponnese, Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Polish Journal of Entomology 86: 193-236.
• Czechowski W., A. Radchenko, W. Czechowska and K. Vepsäläinen. 2012. The ants of Poland with reference to the myrmecofauna of Europe. Fauna Poloniae 4. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 1-496 pp
• Ettershank G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171.
• Forel, A.. "Nouvelles fourmis de Grèce récoltées par M. E. von Oertzen." Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30 (1886): clix-clxviii.
• Karaman C., and K. Kiran. 2017. First record of Carebara oertzeni Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the European part of Turkey with worker description. Turkish Journal of Zoology
• Purkart A., D. Jablonski, and J. Christophoryova. 2019. First record of Carebara oertzeni Forel, 1886 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Albania. Nat. Croat. 28(1): 173-176.
• Salata S., and L. Borowiec. 2018. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 27: 1-51.