Temnothorax rothneyi
Temnothorax rothneyi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Temnothorax |
Species group: | palearctic |
Species: | T. rothneyi |
Binomial name | |
Temnothorax rothneyi (Forel, 1902) |
Identification
Prebus (2017) - A member of the Palearctic clade.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 32.812778° to 25.84666667°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India (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
Castes
Queen
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- rothneyi. Leptothorax rothneyi Forel, 1902c: 230 (w.) INDIA. Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. See also: Bingham, 1903: 217.
Description
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from (Bingham 1903)
Worker
Head more or less ferruginous brown, thorax and pedicel more or less bright ferruginous red, abdomen brown to dark brown, mandibles, antennae and legs yellow; head and thorax minutely and closely punctured, rugulose and more or less opaque, in some specimens slightly shining; pilosity pale, short, sparse, somewhat broader and more transverse posteriorly; mandibles minutely longitudinally striate at base; clypeus very convex in the middle, polished and shining; antennae much as in L. fuUoni, the club of the flagellum more massive; eyes rather large, placed in the middle of the sides of the head.
Thorax: the pro-mesonotum rather broad, anteriorly convex, narrowing posteriorly; the basal portion of the metanotum rectangular, with a somewhat stout triangular erect spine at the posterior lateral angles on each side. Pedicel thick, the nodes somewhat as in L. fultoni, the 2nd node transverse, broad; abdomen oval, anteriorly truncate, posteriorly somewhat pointed.
Length: 2.5 to nearly 3 mm.
Habitat. North-west Himalayas, Mussoorie (Rothney); Sikkim (Moller); hills of Central India, Pachmarhi (Scliurr).
References
- Bharti, H., Gul, I., Sasi, S. 2016. Taxonomy of Temnothorax simlensis stat. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with first description of sexual castes along with a mention of its plesiobiotic association with Himalayan species of genus Myrmica. Sociobiology 63(2): 748-754 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v63i2.869).
- Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 217, see also)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 271, Combination in Temnothorax)
- Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249 (page 230, worker 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
- Bharti H. 2001. Check list of ants from north-west India I. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology 21(2): 163-167.
- Bharti H., Y. P. Sharma, M. Bharti, and M. Pfeiffer. 2013. Ant species richness, endemicity and functional groups, along an elevational gradient in the Himalayas. Asian Myrmecology 5: 79-101.
- Forel A. 1902. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249.
- Karmaly K. A.; S. Sumesh, T. P. Rabeesh, and L. Kishore. 2010. A checklist of ants of Thirunelli in Wayanad, Kerala. J. of the Bombay Natural History Society 107(1): 64-67.
- Tiwari R. N., B. G. Kundu, S. Roy Chowdhury, and S. N. Ghosh. 2003. Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Fauna of Sikkim. Part 4. State Fauna Series. 9.Zool.Surv.India. i-iii, 1-512. Chapter pagination: 467-506.