Temnothorax luteus

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Temnothorax luteus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Temnothorax
Species group: luteus
Species: T. luteus
Binomial name
Temnothorax luteus
(Forel, 1874)

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Specimen Labels

Synonyms

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 46.581° to 32.033333°.

   
North
Temperate
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Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
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Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

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

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

Association with Other Organisms

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This species is a host for the ant Temnothorax muellerianus (a slave maker) (Buschinger et al., 1988) (as Leptothorax tristis).

Life History Traits

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

Castes

Images from AntWeb

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Worker. Specimen code antweb1008480. Photographer Roland Schultz, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MZL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0906174. Photographer Cerise Chen, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.
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Lectotype of Temnothorax luteusWorker. Specimen code casent0907603. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MZL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Neotype of Temnothorax luteusWorker. Specimen code casent0909030. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MHNG, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0906166. 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.

  • luteus. Leptothorax tuberum r. luteus Forel, 1874: 85 (w.) SWITZERLAND. André, 1883a: 304 (q.); Bernard, 1956a: 162 (m.). Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. Subspecies of unifasciatus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 129; of tuberum: Forel, 1913d: 432. Raised to species: Emery, 1916b: 173. Senior synonym of tristis: Seifert, Csösz & Schulz, 2014: 51. See also: Menozzi, 1918: 85; Bondroit, 1918: 133; Stitz, 1939: 176; Bernard, 1967: 208; Kutter, 1977c: 131; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 542. Current subspecies: nominal plus subcingulatus.
  • tristis. Leptothorax tristis Bondroit, 1918: 129, fig. 62 (w.) FRANCE. Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. Junior synonym of luteus: Seifert, Csösz & Schulz, 2014: 51.

Type Material

Types studied by Salata et al. (2018): Temnothorax luteus: Lektotype (w.) (CASENT0907603): [Lectotype (bottom worker) | Temnothorax luteus | (Forel, 1874) | des. B. Seifert 2011 || ANTWEB | CASENT | 09077603 | Catalogué | Base MZL] (MZSL).

Taxonomic Notes

Borowiec & Salata (2020): Temnothorax luteus is a western Mediterranean species known from Spain, Andorra, France, Italy and Switzerland. In the eastern part of Mediterranean Basin occur some undescribed species of this group (our unpublished data) and probably Jordanian record concerns one of those species.

Description

Karyotype

  • n = 21 (France; Switzerland) (Fischer, 1987) (as Leptothorax tristis).

References

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