Plagiolepis atlantis

Plagiolepis atlantis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Plagiolepidini
Genus:	Plagiolepis
Species group:	schmitzii
Species:	P. atlantis
Binomial name
Plagiolepis atlantis Santschi, 1920
Synonyms
Plagiolepis maura kabyla Santschi, 1920 Plagiolepis schmitzi crosi Santschi, 1920

At a Glance

• Polygynous

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Tunisia (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.

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.

Nomenclature

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

• atlantis. Plagiolepis maura var. atlantis Santschi, 1920g: 171 (w.q.m.) TUNISIA.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925b: 21; Menozzi, 1932e: 453; Menozzi, 1934: 163; Finzi, 1936: 184.
  • Subspecies of pallescens: Bolton, 1995b: 334; Salata, Borowiec & Radchenko, 2018: 820.
  • Status as species: Seifert, 2020: 187.
  • Senior synonym of crosi: Seifert, 2020: 189.
  • Senior synonym of kabyla: Seifert, 2020: 189.
  • Senior synonym of perperamus: Seifert, 2020: 189.
• crosi. Plagiolepis schmitzi st. crosi Santschi, 1920g: 168, fig. 1S (w.q.) ALGERIA.
  • [Misspelled as crozi by Emery, 1925b: 20, and others.]
  • Athias-Henriot, 1947: 249 (l.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1953c: 135 (l.).
  • Status as species: Emery, 1921d: 315 (footnote); Emery, 1925b: 20; Santschi, 1931a: 10; Santschi, 1936c: 205; Santschi, 1939d: 77; Athias-Henriot, 1947: 249; Bernard, 1948: 154; Ceballos, 1956: 310.
  • Junior synonym of schmitzii: Collingwood, 1978: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 335; Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor, 2011: 208.
  • Junior synonym of atlantis: Seifert, 2020: 189.
• kabyla. Plagiolepis maura var. kabyla Santschi, 1920g: 170, fig. 1O,P (w.m.) TUNISIA, ALGERIA.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925b: 21.
  • Subspecies of pallescens: Bolton, 1995b: 335; Salata, Borowiec & Radchenko, 2018: 820.
  • Junior synonym of atlantis: Seifert, 2020: 189.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 334, Subspecies of pallescens)
• Borowiec, L., Lebas, C., Salata, S. 2022. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from three northern Aegean islands – Lemnos, Samothraki and Thasos. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 31: 1-14 (doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7346453).
• Bračko, G. 2019. New data on the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Azerbaijan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15, 165–175 (doi:10.23885/181433262019151-165175).
• Degueldre, F., Mardulyn, P., Kuhn, A., Pinel, A., Karaman, C., Lebas, C., Schifani, E., Bračko, G., Wagner, H.C., Kiran, K., Borowiec, L., Passera, L., Abril, S., Espadaler, X., Aron, S. 2021. Evolutionary history of inquiline social parasitism in Plagiolepis ants. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 155, 107016 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107016).
• Salata, S., Borowiec, L., Radchenko, A.G. 2018. Description of Plagiolepis perperamus, a new species from East-Mediterranean and redescription of Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68(4): 809-824 (doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.005).
• Santschi, F. 1920g. Cinq nouvelles notes sur les fourmis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 53: 163-186 (page 171, worker, queen, male described)
• Seifert, B. 2020. Revision of the Plagiolepis schmitzii group with description of Pl. invadens sp. nov. – a new invasive supercolonial species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 67(2): 183–196 (doi:10.3897/dez.67.53199).