Temnothorax korbi

Temnothorax korbi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Temnothorax
Species group:	corticalis
Species:	T. korbi
Binomial name
Temnothorax korbi (Emery, 1924) Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 38.333333° to 37.15°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, 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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0906171. Photographer Cerise Chen, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

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

• korbi. Leptothorax corticalis var. korbi Emery, 1924d: 254 (w.q.) TRANSCAUCASIA. [First available use of Leptothorax tuberum subsp. corticalis var. korbi Emery, 1898c: 133; unavailable name.] Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. Raised to species: Arnol'di, 1948: 7.

Taxonomic Notes

Radchenko, Yusupov & Fedoseeva (2015) - Radchenko [1994c] has established 12 species groups for the Central and East Palaearctic Temnothorax, and the group korbi among them. The proposed diagnosis of this group was: mesosoma low, long, coarsely longitudinally rugose; petiole low, with the very massive node; propodeum with the very short denticles or only with the blunt tubercles. He placed 5 species to this group: T. korbi, T. caucasicus (Arnoldi, 1977), T. anodonta, T. anodontoides (Dlussky et Zabelin, 1985), and T. iranicus (Radchenko, 1994).

Nevertheless, the previous treatments of T. korbi by Arnoldi [1948, 1977] and by Radchenko [1994a, b, 1995b] proved to be incorrect, and after investigation of the type specimens of this species from the Emery’s collection (MCSNG) (worker and queen, the labels are: “Lept. corticalis var. korbi Emery”, “Lenkoran Korb”), we have ascertained that T. korbi by the short propodeal spines resembles T. corticalis (Schenck, 1852), but by the presence of the shallow metanotal groove and by some other features it should be transferred to the nylanderi species group. As the name T. caucasicus is considered now a junior synonym of T. nadigi (Kutter, 1925) [see Czechowski et al., 2002, 2012], we establish here the nadigi species-group, placing to it T. nadigi itself, Temnothorax anodonta, Temnothorax anodontoides, Temnothorax iranicus, and Temnothorax dlusskyi sp. n.

References

• Arnol'di, K. V. 1948b. Fam. Formicidae - ants. Pp. 769-780 in: Tarbinskii, S. P., Plavil'shchikov, N. N. (eds.) Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Moskva: Sel'khozgiz, 1128 pp. (page 7?, Raised to species)
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 271, Combination in Temnothorax)
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Emery, C. 1924f [1922]. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C: 207-397 (page 254, worker, queen described)
• Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).
• Radchenko, A.G., Yusupov, Z.M., Fedoseeva, E.B. 2015. Taxonomic notes for some Caucasian Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with descriptions of three new species. Caucasian Entomomological Bulletin 11: 161–167.
• Salata, S., Borowiec, L. 2022. A review of the Temnothorax anodontoides species-group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Greece. ZooKeys 1091: 139-159 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1091.79085).
• Snegovaya, N., Shigayev, C. 2021. A checklist of the ants (Insecta, Formicidae) of Azerbaijan Republic. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 17(2): 179-207 (doi:10.22067/ijab.2022.67343.1000).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Arnol'di K. V. 1977. New and little known species of the genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the European regions of the USSR and the Caucasus. Entomol. Rev. (Wash.) 56: 148-153.
• Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Gratiashvili N., Barjadze S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23: 130-146.
• Kiran K., and C. Karaman. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548: 1-38.
• Schulz, A., and M. Sanetra. "Notes on the socially parasitic ants of Turkey and the synonymy of Epimyrma (Hymenoptera: Formcidae)." Entomofauna, Zeitschrift für Entomologie 23 (14) (2002): 157-172.