Rossomyrmex proformicarum

Rossomyrmex proformicarum
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Formicini
Genus:	Rossomyrmex
Species:	R. proformicarum
Binomial name
Rossomyrmex proformicarum Arnol'di, 1928 Specimen labels

At a Glance

• Dulotic

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 41.508577° to 41.508577°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation (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.

Biology

This species is a dulotic parasite for the ant Proformica epinotalis (a host) (D'Ettorre & Heinze, 2001; Ruano et al., 2013; de la Mora et al., 2021).

Nomenclature

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

• proformicarum. Rossomyrmex proformicarum Arnol'di, 1928c: 300, figs. 1-6 (w.) RUSSIA. See also: Arnol'di, 1932a: 319.

References

• Arnol'di, K. V. 1928c. Studien über die Systematik der Ameisen. III. Rossomyrmex. Neue Gattung der Ameisen und ihre Beziehungen zu den anderen Gattungen der Formicidae. Zool. Anz. 75: 299-310 (page 300, figs. 1-6 worker described)
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1932a. Biologische Beobachtungen an der neuen paläarktischen Sklavenhalterameise Rossomyrmex proformicarum K. Arn., nebst einigen Bemerkungen über die Beförderungsweise der Ameisen. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 24:319-326. [1932-01-11]
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• de la Mora, A., Sankovitz, M., Purcell, J. 2020. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as host and intruder: recent advances and future directions in the study of exploitative strategies. Myrmecological News 30: 53-71 (doi:10.25849/MYRMECOL.NEWS_030:053).
• D'Ettorre, P., Heinze, J. 2001. Sociobiology of slave-making ants. Acta ethologica 3, 67–82 (doi:10.1007/s102110100038).
• Dubovikoff, D.A., Yusupov, Z.M. 2017. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
• Ruano, F., Sanllorente, O., Lenoir, A., Tinaut, A. 2013. Rossomyrmex, the slave-maker ants from the arid steppe environments. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 2013, 1–7 (doi:10.1155/2013/541804).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Dubovikoff D. A., and Z. M. Yusupov. 2018. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
• Guénard B., and R. R. Dunn. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3558: 1-77.
• Marikovsky P. I. 1979. Ants of the Semireche Desert. [In Russian.]. Alma Ata: Nauka, 263 pp.
• Schultz, R., A. G. Radchenko, and B. Seifert. "A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 201-207.