Temnothorax affinis

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Temnothorax affinis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Temnothorax
Species group: affinis
Species: T. affinis
Binomial name
Temnothorax affinis
(Mayr, 1855)

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Specimen labels

Synonyms

A relatively common, arboreal species usually inhabiting twigs in southern European (Rigato & Toni, 2011) and associated with broad-leaved forests in Russia (Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007).

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 52.93333333° to 37.757222°.

 
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Neotropical Region: Cuba.
Palaearctic Region: Andorra, Austria (type locality), Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye.

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.
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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

Flight Period

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Association with Other Organisms

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Other Ants

  • This species is a host for the ant Temnothorax muellerianus (a dulotic parasite) (Buschinger et al., 1988) (rare host).
  • This species is a host for the ant Temnothorax ravouxi (a dulotic parasite) in southern Europe (Czechowski & Czechowska, 2000; Báthori et al., 2024).

Cestoda

  • This species is a host for the cestode Dilepididae (type 1(?)) (a parasite) in Germany (Buschinger, 1973; Laciny, 2021).
  • This species is a host for the cestode Anomotaenia brevis (a parasite) in Germany (Scharf et al., 2012; Laciny, 2021).

Fungi

  • This species is a host for the fungus Myrmicinosporidium durum (a pathogen) in France, Croatia, Switzerland (Buschinger & Winter, 1983; Espadaler & Santamaria, 2012).

Life History Traits

  • Queen number: monogynous (Frumhoff & Ward, 1992)

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • affinis. Leptothorax affinis Mayr, 1855: 442 (w.) AUSTRIA. Forel, 1874: 88 (q.); Stitz, 1914: 62 (m.). Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. Subspecies of tuberum: Forel, 1874: 85; Forel, 1892i: 314; Bondroit, 1910: 496; Emery, 1916b: 174; Emery, 1924d: 256. Status as species: Bondroit, 1918: 128; Müller, 1923: 93; Finzi, 1933: 164; Stitz, 1939: 173; Bernard, 1956a: 163; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 102; Kutter, 1977c: 130; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 133. Senior synonym of tirolensis: Emery, 1914d: 158 (footnote); of tuberoaffinis: Kutter, 1977c: 14.
  • tirolensis. Leptothorax tirolensis Gredler, 1858: 26 (w.) AUSTRIA. Subspecies of tuberum: Emery & Forel, 1879: 459. Status as species: André, 1883a: 297; Dalla Torre, 1893: 127. Junior synonym of affinis: Emery, 1914d: 158 (footnote).

Type Material

Types studied by Salata et al. (2018): Temnothorax affinis: Syntype (w.) (CASENT0907571): [Fully | 14.VII-17 || Clypeus mit längskiel | Fuhlerschaft Kü (…) || als bei tuberum || Typus || ANTWEB | CASENT | 0907571 || Catalogué | Base MZL || two other labels – unreadable writing] (MZLS).


Description

Karyotype

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  • n = 9 (France, Germany, Switzerland) (Fischer, 1987) (as Leptothorax affinis).

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