Temnothorax saxonicus

Temnothorax saxonicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Temnothorax
Species group:	nylanderi
Species complex:	sordidulus
Species:	T. saxonicus
Binomial name
Temnothorax saxonicus (Seifert, 1995) Specimen Labels

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Bulgaria, Czechia, Germany (type locality), Greece, Hungary, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia.

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.

Biology

Flight Period

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Castes

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0179928. Photographer Erin Prado, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0906033. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by PCAS, Andreas Schulz Collection.

Worker. Specimen code casent0906034. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by PCAS, Andreas Schulz Collection.

Nomenclature

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

• saxonicus. Leptothorax sordidulus subsp. saxonicus Seifert, 1995: 14, figs. 2, 7, 12, 14 (w.q.) GERMANY.
  • Combination in Temnothorax: Seifert, 2006: 8.
  • Subspecies of sordidulus: Csösz, 2001: 102; Czechowski, et al. 2002: 52
  • Junior synonym of tergestinus: Csösz, Heinze & Mikó, 2015: 57.
  • Status as species: Seifert, 2006: 8; Bračko, 2007: 18; Seifert, 2007: 241; Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 150; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 496; Lapeva-Gjonova, et al. 2010: 24; Karaman, M.G. 2011b: 33; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 544; Czechowski, et al. 2012: 152; Borowiec, L. 2014: 188; Seifert, 2018: 218.

References

• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Csösz, S., Heinze, J., Mikó, I. 2015. Taxonomic synopsis of the Ponto-Mediterranean ants of Temnothorax nylanderi species-group. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0140000 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140000).
• Czechowski, W., Radchenko, A., Czechowska, W. 2002. The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Poland. MIZ PAS Warsaw.
• Gonzalez, J.A. 2021. Description of Temnothorax estel sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of the Iberian species of the sordidulus species-complex. Zootaxa 5005, 145–160 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5005.2.2).
• Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Antonova, V. 2022. An updated checklist of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria, after 130 years of research. Biodiversity Data Journal 10, e95599 (doi:10.3897/bdj.10.e95599).
• Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Kiran, K. 2012. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Strandzha (Istranca) Mountain and adjacent Black Sea coast. North-Western Journal of Zoology 8(1), 72-84.
• Seifert, B. 2018. The ants of Central and North Europe: 407 pp. Lutra, Boxberg.