Goniomma hispanicum

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Goniomma hispanicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Goniomma
Species: G. hispanicum
Binomial name
Goniomma hispanicum
(André, 1883)

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Specimen labels

Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 43.473553° to 29.228611°.

   
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: France, Gibraltar, Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, Portugal, Spain (type locality), Tunisia.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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

Morphology

Castro et al. (2016) described a stridulatory structure in this species. They used SEM photographs to discern the details they reported.

A pars stridens much wider than long (width 0.11 mm and length 0.06 mm). This is the species with the thinnest striation in the morphometric study, together with Messor capitatus, Pheidole pallidula and Tetramorium caespitum, with an average ridge width of 0.80 μm. The outline of the pars stridens is clearly rounded. Pillars are very strong and the number of teeth on their surface is higher than in Goniomma blanci. A geometric pattern can be observed on the base of the pillars.

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Fungi

This species is a host for the fungus Myrmicinosporidium durum (a pathogen) in Portugal (Gonçalves et al., 2012.).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • hispanicum. Aphaenogaster hispanica André, 1883b: 365, 372 (in key), pl. 23, figs. 11, 13, 21 (q.m.) SPAIN.
    • Type-material: syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
    • Type-locality: Spain: Madrid (no collector’s name).
    • Type-depository: MNHN.
    • Forel, 1892g: 453 (w.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1983: 602 (l.).
    • Combination in Stenamma (Goniomma): Emery, 1895c: 298;
    • combination in Oxyopomyrmex (Goniomma): Forel, 1905b: 176; Santschi, 1907: 330;
    • combination in Goniomma: Emery, 1908e: 461.
    • Junior synonym of blanci: Forel, 1905b: 176.
    • Status as species: Forel, 1892g: 453; Dalla Torre, 1893: 102; Emery, 1908e: 461; Karavaiev, 1912a: 11; Bondroit, 1918: 163; Santschi, 1919e: 244; Emery, 1921f: 75; Menozzi, 1922b: 327; Santschi, 1929e: 146 (in key); Santschi, 1931a: 4; Ceballos, 1956: 300; Bernard, 1967: 155 (redescription); Cagniant, 1970a: 416; Collingwood, 1978: 80 (in key); Acosta Salmerón, 1982: 13 (redescription); De Haro & Collingwood, 1994: 101; Bolton, 1995b: 211; Espadaler, 1997b: 29; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 14 (in key); Cagniant, 2006a: 196; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 488; Borowiec, L. 2014: 81 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 280.
    • Senior synonym of gallica: Acosta Salmerón, 1982: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 211; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowsky, 2009: 488.
    • Senior synonym of maurum: Acosta Salmerón, 1982: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 211.
    • Material of the unavailable names barbaricum, nitidifrons referred here by Acosta Salmerón, 1982: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 211.
    • Distribution: Algeria, France, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia.
  • gallica. Goniomma hispanicum var. gallica Emery, 1908e: 461 (w.) FRANCE.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: France: Camargue (A. Forel).
    • Type-depository: MSNG (perhaps also in MHNG).
    • Subspecies of hispanicum: Bondroit, 1918: 164; Emery, 1921f: 75; Santschi, 1929e: 145 (in key).
    • Junior synonym of hispanicum: Acosta Salmerón, 1982: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 211; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowsky, 2009: 488.
  • maurum. Goniomma maurum Santschi, 1926e: 235 (w.) MOROCCO.
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Morocco: Tangier, 1908 (H. Vaucher).
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • Status as species: Santschi, 1929e: 146 (in key).
    • Junior synonym of hispanicum: Acosta Salmerón, 1982: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 211.

Description

References

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