Temnothorax bernardi

Temnothorax bernardi
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Temnothorax
Species group:	palearctic
Species:	T. bernardi
Binomial name
Temnothorax bernardi (Espadaler, 1982) Specimen Labels

At a Glance

• Dulotic

Identification

Prebus (2017) - A member of the Palearctic clade.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 40.338875° to 40.264444°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Iberian Peninsula, Spain (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 host for the ant Temnothorax algerianus (a slave maker) (Buschinger et al., 1990). ERROR: Temnothorax bernardi is a slave maker, living with Temnothorax gredosi, both in Spain. Temnothorax algerianus is another slave maker, living in Algeria and Morocco. Hence T. bernardi cannot be a host for T. algerianus. - Sorry, I am unable to make the edit in the correct form. (A. Buschinger)

Nomenclature

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

• bernardi. Epimyrma bernardi Espadaler, 1982a: 1, figs. 1-11 (w.q.) SPAIN. Combination in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2014: 15. See also: Buschinger, 1995: 75.

Description

Karyotype

• See additional details at the Ant Chromosome Database.

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• n = 10 (Spain) (Buschinger et al., 1986; Fischer, 1987) (as Epimyrma bernardi).

References

• Buschinger, A. 1989a. Evolution, speciation, and inbreeding in the parasitic ant genus Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2: 265-283.
• Buschinger, A. 1995a. Life history of the parasitic ant Epimyrma bernardi Espadaler, 1982 (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Spixiana 18: 75-81 (page 75, see also)
• Espadaler, X. 1982a. Epimyrma bernardi n. sp., a new parasitic ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Spixiana 5: 1-6 (page 1, figs. 1-11 worker, queen described)
• Prebus, M. 2017. Insights into the evolution, biogeography and natural history of the acorn ants, genus Temnothorax Mayr (hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 17:250. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1095-8 (The doi link to the publication's journal webpage provides access to the 24 files that accompany this article).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Blanco J. L., D. Carpi, and X. Espadaler. 2012. Tres nuevas adiciones a las hormigas de Aragón (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Boletín de la Sociedad entomológica Aragonesa 50: 563-564.
• Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Heinze J., A. Buschinger, T. Poettinger, M. Suefuji. 2015. Multiple convergent Origins of workerlessness and inbreeding in the socially parasitic ant genus Myrmoxenus. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131023. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131023
• Lorite P., J. A. Carrillo, M. F. García, and T. Palomeque. 2000. Chromosome numbers in Spanish Formicidae. III. Subfamily Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera). Sociobiology 36: 555-570.