Temnothorax rottenbergii

Temnothorax rottenbergii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Temnothorax
Species group:	rottenbergii
Species:	T. rottenbergii
Binomial name
Temnothorax rottenbergii (Emery, 1870) Specimen Labels
Subspecies
Temnothorax rottenbergii ernesti Santschi, 1909 Temnothorax rottenbergii scabriosus Santschi, 1909

Xerothermophilous and alpine species associated with rock and stones on open, sunny habitats such as mountain pastures, grasslands or edges of forests (Salata & Borowiec, 2019).

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 44.866667° to 33.874722°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Canary Islands, Croatia, Greece, Italy (type locality), Türkiye.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

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

• This species is a host for the ant Temnothorax brunneus (a slave maker) in Morocco (Buschinger & Douwes, 1990).
• This species is a host for the ant Temnothorax muellerianus (a slave maker) (Beibl et al., 2007; Buschinger et al., 1988).

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0010031. Photographer Erin Prado, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Syntype of Temnothorax rottenbergii. Worker. Specimen code casent0904731. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

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

• rottenbergii. Macromischa rottenbergii Emery, 1870: 199 (w.q.) ITALY (Sicily). Emery, 1895b: 69 (m.). Combination in Leptothorax: Emery, 1878b: 51; in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. Current subspecies: nominal plus ernesti, jesus, scabriosus. See also: Emery, 1916b: 187.

Type Material

Types studied by Salata et al. (2018): Temnothorax rottenbergii: Syntype (w.) (CASENT0904731): [Leptothorax | Rottenbergi | Em | Catania Rottb. || TYPUS || ANTWEB | CASENT | 0904731 || Catania | v. Rottb. || Museo Civico di Genoa || Collezione | EMERY] (MSNG).

Description

Karyotype

• n = 11 (Italy) (Fischer, 1987) (as Leptothorax rottenbergii).

References

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