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Cataglyphis floricola
| Cataglyphis floricola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Formicini |
| Genus: | Cataglyphis |
| Species: | C. floricola |
| Binomial name | |
| Cataglyphis floricola Tinaut, 1993
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| At a Glance | • Ergatoid queen |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 37.114167° to 36.754167°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Iberian Peninsula, Spain (type locality).
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. |
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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
C. floricola presents two types of queens: brachypterous (with short non-functional wings) and ergatoid (worker-like apterous queens). Ergatoids are, on average, 2.8 mg lighter and have half the number of ovarioles than brachypterous queens (Amor et al. 2011)
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- floricola. Cataglyphis floricola Tinaut, 1993: 125, figs. 1-4 (w.q.m.) SPAIN.
- Type-material: holotype worker, 350 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens, 9 paratype males.
- Type-locality: holotype Spain: Doñana, Huelva, Dunes of Matalascañas, nest 3, 28.iv.1992 (A. Tinaut); paratypes with same data.
- Type-depositories: ATPC (holotype); ATPC, BMNH, MCNM, MHNG, MNHN, XEPC (paratypes).
- [Cataglyphis floricola Cerda, et al. 1992: 315. Nomen nudum.]
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 135; Borowiec, L. 2014: 55; Lebas, et al. 2016: 168.
- Distribution: Spain.
Description
References
- Amor, F., Ortega, P., Jowers, M.J., Cerdá, X., Billen, J., Lenoir, A., Boulay, R.R. 2011. The evolution of worker–queen polymorphism in Cataglyphis ants: interplay between individual- and colony-level selections. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65, 1473–1482 (doi:10.1007/s00265-011-1157-7).
- Bieber, A.G.D., Pereira, E.R., Bottcher, C. 2020. Flower perianth: first observations on a novel diet item for the ponerine ant Odontomachus chelifer (Latreille). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 64: e20200019 (doi:10.1590/1806-9665-rbent-2020-0019).
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Cantone S. 2017. Winged Ants, The Male, Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the World, Behavioral ecology of mating flight (self-published).
- Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
- Cerdá, X., Angulo, E., Boulay, R., Lenoir, A. 2008. Individual and collective foraging decisions: a field study of worker recruitment in the gypsy ant Aphaenogaster senilis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63, 551–562 (doi:10.1007/S00265-008-0690-5).
- Cerda, X., Retana, J. & Carpintero, S. 1996. The caste system and social repertoire of Cataglyphis floricola (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Journal of Ethology 14: 1-8.
- Cerdá, X.; Retana, J.; Carpintero, S.; Cros, S. 1992. Petals as the main resource collected by the ant Cataglyphis floricola. Sociobiology 20: 315-319 (page 315, nomen nudum)
- Cordonnier, M., Blight, O., Angulo, E., Courchamp, F. 2020. Behavioral data and analyses of competitive interactions between invasive and native ant species. Animals 10, 2451 (doi:10.3390/ani10122451).
- Devenish, A.J.M., Newton, R.J., Bridle, J.R., Gomez, C., Midgley, J.J., Sumner, S. 2021. Contrasting responses of native ant communities to invasion by an ant invader, Linepithema humile. Biological Invasions 23, 2553–2571 (doi:10.1007/s10530-021-02522-7).
- Jowers, M.J., Amor, F., Ortega, P., Lenoir, A., Boulay, R.R., Cerdá, X., Galarza, J.A. 2014. Recent speciation and secondary contact in endemic ants. Molecular Ecology 23, 2529–2542 (doi:10.1111/mec.12749).
- Miler, K., Turza, F. 2021. “O Sister, Where Art Thou?”—A review on rescue of imperiled individuals in ants. Biology 10, 1079 (doi:10.3390/biology10111079).
- Ruano, F., Tinaut, A. 1993. Estructura del nido de Cataglyphis floricola Tinaut, 1993. Estudio comparado con los hormigueros de C. iberica (Emery, 1906) y C. rosenhaueri (Emery, 1906) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomologia 17: 179-189.
- Tinaut, A. 1993. Cataglyphis floricola nov. sp. new species for the genus Cataglyphis Förster, 1850 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Iberian Peninsula. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 66: 123-134 (page 125, figs. 1-4 worker, queen, male described)
- Tinaut, A., Ruano, F. 2021. Biogeography of Iberian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Diversity 13, 88. (doi:10.3390/d13020088).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Amor, F., P. Ortega, X. Cerdá and R. Boulay. 2010. Cooperative prey-retrieving in the ant Cataglyphis floricola: an unusual short-distance recruitment. Insectes Sociaux 57(1):91-94.
- Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Carpintero, S., A. Tinaut, J. Reyes, and L. Arias. "Estudio faunístico de los formícidos (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) del Parque Nacional de Doñana." Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 25 (1-2) (2001): 133-152.
- Cerda, X., E. Angulo, R. Boulay and A. Lenoir. 2009. Individual and collective foraging decisions: a field study of worker recruitment in the gypsy ant Aphaenogaster senilis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:551-562
- Retana J., and X. Cerdá X. 2000. Patterns of diversity and composition of Mediterranean ground ant communites tracking spatial and temporal variability in the thermal environment. Oecologia 123: 436-444.
- Tinaut, A.. "Cataglyphis floricola nov. sp. new species for the genus Cataglyphis Förster, 1850 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Iberian Peninsula." Mitteilungen der Schweirzerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 66 (1993): 123-134.