Monomorium ruzskyi

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

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

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

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.

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

Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
Bračko, G. 2019. New data on the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Azerbaijan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15, 165–175 (doi:10.23885/181433262019151-165175).
Dlussky, G. M.; Zabelin, S. I. 1985. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the River Sumbar Basin (south-west Kopetdag). Pp. 208-246 in: Nechaevaya, N. T. (ed.) The vegetation and animal world of western Kopetdag. Ashkhabad: Ylym, 278 pp. (page 218, fig. 1 worker, queen, male described)
Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).
Shigayev, C., Snegovaya, N. 2022. Monomorium ellenarium sp. nov., a new inquilinous ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Monomorium monomorium group from Azerbaijan Republic. Munis Entomology & Zoology, 17 (2): 1197-1202.
Snegovaya, N., Shigayev, C. 2021. A checklist of the ants (Insecta, Formicidae) of Azerbaijan Republic. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 17(2): 179-207 (doi:10.22067/ijab.2022.67343.1000).

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).