Stenamma striatulum

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Stenamma striatulum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Stenamma
Species: S. striatulum
Binomial name
Stenamma striatulum
Emery, 1895

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Synonyms

Identification

Rigato (2011) - This is the smallest (especially the gyne) West European Stenamma, characterised, in both the female castes and the male, by finer and more longitudinally arranged rugulation on head (especially on frons and vertex) and promesonotum; the integument in females looks also somewhat shinier than in other species. Furthermore, the worker has moderately long propodeal spines (PSI nearly always > 1.6 and sometimes even > 2.00), and both female castes have scapes almost reaching the posterior margin of the head when laid back. The waist appears somewhat stocky and with petiolar sternite straight and postpetiolar sternite shorter than usual. Males have relatively weakly developed mandibles and a peculiar propodeal dorsum sculpturation: strongly finely reticulate-punctate with several transverse rugulae.

A quite distinctive species because of its small size, more regular longitudinal sculpturation, propodeal spines length and waist structure. The workers may be superficially confused with small specimens of Stenamma debile.

After the examination of dozens of S. striatulum workers, I discovered that in profile the short, shallow, somewhat rectangular prominence of the postpetiolar sternite in S. striatulum is about 40% of PPH; whereas the same structure in other species is > 50% of PPH. This feature seems consistent and allows the recognition of S. striatulum female castes at a glance.

Males of S. striatulum are easily recognizable by their combination of strongly sculptured propodeal dorsum and slightly reduced 4- to 5-toothed mandibles, and by their low SI (< 45) and TI (< 135).

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Widespread and locally common in South Europe from Spain to Greece, and also occurring in Anatolia.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 46.333333° to 40°.

 
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Andorra, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Iberian Peninsula, Italy (type locality), Malta, North Macedonia, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye.

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

Worker

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Queen

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Male

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Nomenclature

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

  • striatulum. Stenamma westwoodi var. striatulum Emery, 1895c: 300 (footnote) (w.q.) ITALY.
    • Type-material: 2 syntype workers, 3 syntype queens.
    • Type-localities: 2 workers, 1 queen Italy: Capodimonte (Naples), 30.iii.1872 (C. Emery), 1 queen Italy: Piedmont (Gribodo), 1 queen Italy: Rome (no collector’s name).
    • Type-depository: MSNG.
    • Kutter, 1971: 259 (m.).
    • Subspecies of westwoodii: Emery, 1908c: 307; Emery, 1916b: 127; Emery, 1921f: 54; Müller, 1923a: 67; Grandi, 1935: 99.
    • Status as species: Müller, 1923b: 46; Kutter, 1963: 130; Kutter, 1971: 263; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 39; Arnol'di, 1975: 1822; Kutter, 1977c: 74; Arnol’di & Dlussky, 1978: 535 (in key); Espadaler & Riasol, 1983: 227; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 53; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 269 (in key); Mei, 1992a: 416; Bolton, 1995b: 394; Poldi, et al. 1995: 3; Espadaler, 1997b: 31; DuBois, 1998b: 259 (redescription); Bračko, 2006: 140; Petrov, 2006: 89 (in key); Bračko, 2007: 18; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 493; Liu, X. & Xu, 2011: 739 (in key); Rigato, 2011: 13 (redescription); Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 535; Bharti, Gul & Sharma, 2012a: 328 (in key); Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 24; Borowiec, L. 2014: 161; Lebas, et al. 2016: 336; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 48; Seifert, 2018: 226.
    • Senior synonym of tscherkessicum: Arnol'di, 1975: 1822; Bolton, 1995b: 394; DuBois, 1998b: 259; Rigato, 2011: 13.
    • Distribution: Andorra, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy (+ Sardinia), Malta, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey.
  • tscherkessicum. Stenamma westwoodi var. tscherkessicum Arnol'di, 1928b: 214 (in text) (q.) RUSSIA.
    • Type-material: holotype queen.
    • Type-locality: Russia: NE coast of Back Sea, Abrau, nr Novorossiysk, 28.viii.1924 (Arnol’di).
    • Type-depository: ZMUM.
    • Junior synonym of striatulum: Arnol'di, 1975: 1822; Bolton, 1995b: 394; DuBois, 1998b: 259; Rigato, 2011: 13.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker

Rigato (2011) - TL 2.9–3.4; HL 0.67–0.78; HW 0.57–0.67; CI 83–89; SL 0.53–0.62; SI 89–97; PCI 26–34; PnW 0.38–0.46; AL 0.77–0.97; PSI 1.59–2.00; PeL 0.28–0.35; PPL 0.18–0.21; PeH 0.18–0.22; PPH 0.18–0.23; PeW 0.14–0.17; PPW 0.19–0.23; PI1 57–67; PI2 46–55; MTL 0.43–0.52; TI 73–81 (24 measured).

Queen

Rigato (2011) - TL 3.5–3.8; HL 0.75–0.80; HW 0.65–0.71; CI 85–90; SL 0.59–0.62; SI 86–91; PCI 24–32; AL 1.02–1.11; PSI 1.61–2.08; ScW 0.52–0.56; MnL 0.70–0.79; PeL 0.32–0.37; PPL 0.20–0.23; PeH 0.23–0.25; PPH 0.24–0.25; PeW 0.16–0.19; PPW 0.23–0.27; PI1 58–66; PI2 49–54; MTL 0.50–0.57; TI 77–82 (9 measured).

Male

Rigato (2011) - TL 3.1–3.4; HL 0.55–0.56; HW 0.47–0.48; CI 85–86; SL 0.17–0.20; SI 36–42; AL 1.05–1.12; ScW 0.50–0.54; MnL 0.74–0.77; PeL 0.31–0.34; PPL 0.19–0.20; PeH 0.20–0.21; PPH 0.19–0.20; PeW 0.16–0.17; PPW 0.21–0.23; PI1 59–62; PI2 66–71; MTL 0.60–0.64; TI 128–133 (3 measured).

Type Material

Rigato (2011) - 2 syntype workers and 1 dealate gyne, ITALY: Capodimonte [Naples], 30.iii.[18]72 (C. Emery) [not examined]. 1 syntype alate gyne, ITALY: PIEMONTE “776” [handwritten by Gribodo] (Gribodo) (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa) [not examined].

References

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