Temnothorax rothneyi

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Temnothorax rothneyi
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)

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Specimen Labels

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

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (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

Castes

Queen

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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

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.