Strongylognathus huberi

Strongylognathus huberi
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Strongylognathus
Species:	S. huberi
Binomial name
Strongylognathus huberi Forel, 1874 Specimen Labels
Subspecies
Strongylognathus huberi dalmaticus Baroni Urbani, 1969
Synonyms
Strongylognathus huberi gallica Bondroit, 1918

Found in sun-exposed stony pastures and other open habitats where it usually nests under stones. Known hosts of this slave-making species are Tetramorium caespitum, Tetramorium impurum and Tetramorium semilaeve (Sanetra & Buschinger, 2000; Seifert, 2018; de la Mora et al., 2021).

At a Glance

• Dulotic

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 45.466667° to 36.733333°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland (type locality), Türkiye.

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

Flight Period

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Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Source: Seifert, 2018.

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Castes

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Syntype of Strongylognathus gallica. Worker. Specimen code casent0904864. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Syntype of Strongylognathus huberi. Worker. Specimen code casent0905776. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

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

• huberi. Strongylognathus huberi Forel, 1874: 71 (in key), 94 (w.) SWITZERLAND.
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-locality: Switzerland: (no further data).
  • [Note: Forel, 1900e: 278 provides the Swiss locality of Valais, Fully, 7.vii.-20.viii., which Baroni Urbani, 1969c: 137, interprets as type-data; but this assumption may be incorrect.]
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • André, 1885: 851 (q.); Forel, 1900e: 278 (m.); Hauschteck, 1962: 213 (k.).
  • Status as species: Emery, 1878b: 52; Emery & Forel, 1879: 457; André, 1883a: 282 (in key); André, 1885: 851; Emery, 1891b: 4; Dalla Torre, 1893: 129; Wasmann, 1894: 164; Ruzsky, 1896: 71; Forel, 1900e: 277; Wheeler, W.M. 1901c: 709; Emery, 1909d: 707; Wheeler, W.M. 1909g: 176, 186; Forel, 1915d: 15 (in key); Emery, 1916b: 199; Bondroit, 1918: 110; Kutter, 1920a: 528; Soudek, 1922: 29; Kutter, 1923: 388; Emery, 1924d: 285; Finzi, 1924a: 14; Finzi, 1924b: 121; Arnol'di, 1933b: 598 (in key); Karavaiev, 1936: 278; Donisthorpe, 1936c: 114 (in list); Novák & Sadil, 1941: 88 (in key); Ceballos, 1956: 307; Baroni Urbani, 1962: 132; Bernard, 1967: 238 (redescription); Kutter, 1968a: 60; Kutter, 1968b: 205; Baroni Urbani, 1969c: 137 (redescription); Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 148; Bolton, 1976: 308; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 278 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 395; Poldi, et al. 1995: 6; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 18; Sanetra, Güsten & Schulz, 1999: 335; Tinaut, Ruano & Martinez, 2005: 473; Petrov, 2006: 101 (in key); Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 493; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 24; Borowiec, L. 2014: 163 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 338; Seifert, 2018: 236.
  • Senior synonym of gallica: Baroni Urbani, 1962: 132; Baroni Urbani, 1969c: 137; Bolton, 1976: 308; Bolton, 1995b: 395; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 493.
  • Distribution: Bosnia, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus dalmaticus.
• gallica. Strongylognathus gallica Bondroit, 1918: 111.
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-localities: France: Marseille, and Pyrenees (no collectors’ names).
  • Type-depository: MSNG.
  • [First available use of Strongylognathus huberi subsp. huberi var. gallica Emery, 1909d: 709 (w.) FRANCE; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, W.M. 1909g: 186.
  • Subspecies of huberi: Kutter, 1923: 338; Donisthorpe, 1936c: 114 (in list); Kutter, 1923: 388; Emery, 1924d: 286.
  • Status as species: Kutter, 1968b: 205.
  • Junior synonym of huberi: Baroni Urbani, 1962: 132; Baroni Urbani, 1969c: 137; Bolton, 1976: 308; Bolton, 1995b: 395; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 493.

Description

Karyotype

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• n = 14, 2n = 28 (Switzerland) (Hauschteck, 1962).

References

• André, E. 1885d. Supplément aux fourmis. Pp. 833-854 in: André, Edm. 1881-1886. Species des Hyménoptères d'Europe et d'Algérie. Tome Deuxième. Beaune: Edmond André, 919 + 48 pp. (page 851, queen described)
• Baroni Urbani, C. 1962. Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia. I. Redia 47: 129-138 (page 132, Senior synonym of gallica)
• Baroni Urbani, C. 1969b. Gli Strongylognathus del gruppo huberi nell'Europa occidentale: saggio di una revisione basata sulla casta operaia (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Boll. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 99- 101: 132-168 (page 137, see also)
• Borowiec, L. & Salata, S. 2013. Ants of Greece – additions and corrections (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 24, 335-401.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Borowiec, L., van Delft, J.P.L., van Delft, J.J.C.W., Salata, S. 2023. Five ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) new to the Greek fauna with notes on ants from Greek Thrace. Annales of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 32 (online 008), 1-13 (doi:10.5281/ZENODO.10101028).
• 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).
• Emery, C. 1916a [1915]. Fauna entomologica italiana. I. Hymenoptera.-Formicidae. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 47: 79-275 (page 201, see also)
• Forel, A. 1874. Les fourmis de la Suisse. Systématique, notices anatomiques et physiologiques, architecture, distribution géographique, nouvelles expériences et observations de moeurs. Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Gesammten Naturwiss. 26: 1-452 (page 71, (see also 94) worker described)
• Forel, A. 1900h. Fourmis du Japon. Nids en toile. Strongylognathus Huberi et voisins. Fourmilière triple. Cyphomymrex Wheeleri. Fourmis importées. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 10: 267-287 (page 277, male described)
• Galkowski, C. & Foin, C. 2013. Nouvelles données sur la répartition de Strongylognathus huberi Forel, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) en France. Bull. Soc. Linn. bordeaux 148, n.s. 41(2), 167-174.
• Hauschteck, E. 1962. Die Chromosomen einiger in der Schweiz vorkommender Ameisenarten. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturforsch. Ges. Zür. 107: 213-220 (page 213, karyotype described)
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• Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Radchenko, A. 2021. Ant genus Strongylognathus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Bulgaria: a preliminary review. Biodiversity Data Journal 9, e65742 (doi:10.3897/bdj.9.e65742).
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