Monomorium ruzskyi

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Monomorium ruzskyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: M. ruzskyi
Binomial name
Monomorium ruzskyi
Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 37.76417° to 35.648889°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan (type locality), Türkiye, Turkmenistan.

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

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • ruzskyi. Monomorium (Xeromyrmex) ruzskyi Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 218, fig. 1 (w.q.m.) TURKMENISTAN.
    • Type-material: holotype worker, paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males.
    • Type-locality: holotype Turkmenistan: River Sumbar Basin, SW Kopetdag; paratypes with same data.
    • Type-depository: ZMUM.
    • Status as species: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 239; Arakelian, 1994: 47; Bolton, 1995b: 266; Paknia, et al. 2010: 33; Borowiec, L. 2014: 125; Bračko, 2019: 172.
    • Distribution. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • 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., O. S. Soyunov, and S. I. Zabelin. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.
  • Kipyatkov V. E. 1993. Annual cycles of development in ants: diversity, evolution, regulation. In: Proceedings of the Colloquia on Social Insects, vol. 2, 2d Colloquium, Rybnoye, 1992. Socium, St. Petersburg, pp 25-48.
  • Kuznetsov G. T. 1990. Comparative analysis of Hymenoptera (Formicidae) population on altitudinal zones of central Kopetdag. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1990(3): 64-67.
  • Paknia, O., A. G. Radchenko, and M. Pfeiffer. "New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran." Asian Myrmecology 3, no. 29-38 (2010).