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Tapinoma karavaievi
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Genus: | Tapinoma |
| Species: | T. karavaievi |
| Binomial name | |
| Tapinoma karavaievi Emery, 1925
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Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) found this species in Iran on the ground in a moderate to low rainfall area.
Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 45.45° to 29.8°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps, Seifert et al. (2024)
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan (type locality), Turkmenistan.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
Check data from AntWeb
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.
- karavaievi. Tapinoma simrothi subsp. karavaievi Emery, 1925d: 52, fig. 5 (w.q.m.) KAZAKHSTAN. Raised to species: Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 547. Senior synonym of azerbeidzhanica: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 170.
- azerbeidzhanica. Tapinoma simrothi subsp. azerbeidzhanica Karavaiev, 1932: 248, fig. 1 (w.m.) AZERBAIJAN. Junior synonym of karavaievi: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 170.
Taxonomic Notes
Khalili-Moghadam et al. (2019) - The status of Tapinoma karavaievi requires revision. The male genitalia are extremely similar to those of Tapinoma simrothi. Perhaps T. karavaievi is the only eastern morphotype of the widespread T. simrothi. Both taxa have been recorded in Iran but only T. karavaievi probably occurs in this area.
Pashaei Rad et al. (2018) - Type location imprecise. Emery (1925) gave the type location as “Turkestan”, he also reported a specimen from Astrabad (northern Iran). The Emery specimens, e.g. as shown at CASENT0904019, are not from the original report by Mayr (1877, as “Tapinoma nigerrimum”) of collections in Turkestan, in an area most probably in (now) Uzbekistan, but from Imam-Baba, Turkmenistan.
Description
References
- Arnol'di, K. V.; Dlussky, G. M. 1978. Superfam. Formicoidea. 1. Fam. Formicidae - ants. Pp. 519-556 in: Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 1. Opredeliteli Faune SSSR 119:3-584. (page 547, Raised to species)
- 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.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990 [1989]. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkhabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. (page 170, Senior synonym of azerbeidzhanica)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 52, fig. 5 worker, queen, male described)
- Khalini-Moghadam, A., Borowiec, L., Nemati, A. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88: 163–182 (DOI 10.2478/pjen-2019-0013).
- Pashaei Rad, S., Taylor, B., Torabi, R., Aram, E., Abolfathi, G., Afshari, R., Borjali, F., Ghatei, M., Hediary, F., Jazini, F., Heidary Kiah, V., Mahmoudi, Z., Safariyan, F., Seiri, M. 2018. Further records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 64, 145-159 (doi:10.1080/09397140.2018.1442301).
- Radchenko, A.G., Fisher, B.L., Esteves, F.A., Martynova, E.V., Bazhenova, T.N., Lasarenko, S.N. 2023. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae. Zootaxa, 5244(1), 1–32 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.1).
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References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
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