Bothriomyrmex saundersi

Bothriomyrmex saundersi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Bothriomyrmex
Species:	B. saundersi
Binomial name
Bothriomyrmex saundersi Santschi, 1922 Specimen labels
Synonyms
Bothriomyrmex rogeri Emery, 1924

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 38.929722° to 36.013056°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Gibraltar, Iberian Peninsula, Portugal, Spain (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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Worker. Specimen code casent0172694. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Nomenclature

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

• rogeri. Bothriomyrmex rogeri Emery, 1924c: 168, fig. B, 1-7 (w.m.) SPAIN.
  • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated, “several”).
  • Type-locality: Spain: Andalusia, Benajoan, 5.i.1923 (F. Silvestri).
  • Type-depository: MSNG.
  • Status as species: Ceballos, 1956: 309 (error).
  • Junior synonym of saundersi: Emery, 1925e: 9 (in text) ; Collingwood, 1978: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 81.
• saundersi. Bothriomyrmex regicidus var. saundersi Santschi, 1922a: 67 (q.m.) no locality given.
  • Type-material: 1 (?) syntype queen, 1 (?) syntype male.
  • Type-locality: none given.
  • Type-depository: unknown.
  • [Notes (i): Shattuck, 1994: 36, says that a male in NHMB, from Andalusia and labeled as holotype (cited by Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 78), is not type-material; (ii) Seifert, 2012b: 103, adds that type-material cannot be identified.]
  • Emery, 1925e: 9 (w.).
  • Status as species: Emery, 1925e: 9 (redescription); Collingwood, 1978: 87 (in key); Shattuck, 1994: 36; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Borowiec, L. 2014: 24; Arcos, Chavez, et al. 2022: 10.
  • Senior synonym of rogeri: Emery, 1925e: 9 (in text); Collingwood, 1978: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 81.
  • Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Bothriomyrmex: Seifert, 2012b: 103.

References

• Arcos, J., Chaves, D., Alarcón, P., Rosado, A. 2022. First record of Temnothorax convexus (Forel, 1894) in Portugal (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with an updated checklist of the ants from the country. Sociobiology, 69(2), e7623 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7623).
• Arcos, J., Chaves, D., Alarcón, P., Rosado, Á. 2022. First record of Temnothorax convexus (Forel, 1894) in Portugal (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with an updated checklist of the ants from the country. Sociobiology, 692), e7623 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7623).
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 81, catalogue)
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Emery, C. 1925c. Les espèces européennes et orientales du genre Bothriomyrmex. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 5-22 (page 9, raised to species, and senior synonym of rogeri)
• Santschi, F. 1922b. Quelques nouvelles variétés de fourmis paléarctiques. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord 13: 66-68 (page 67, queen, male described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Asociacion Iberica de Mirmecologia. 2011. List of species collected during the Taxomara Lisboa 2010. Iberomyrmex 3: 32-33.
• Baroni Urbani C. 1977. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitt. Entomol. Ges. Basel (n.s.) 27: 61-102.
• Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Emery, C. "Formiche di Spagna raccolte dal Prof. Filippo Silvestri." Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura, Portici 17 (1924): 164-171.
• Ortiz, F. J. "Formícidos del litoral granadino." Memoria de Licenciatura Universida (1985): 206 pp.
• Pascual, M. R. "Estudio taxonómico y ecológico de los Formícidos de las Sierras de Alfacar, La Yedra, Huétor y Harana." Tesis Doctoral Universida (1986): 264 pp.
• Reyes-López, J., J. López-Tirado, and R. Obregón-Romero. "Nuevas citas de hormigas parásitas y esclavistas (Hym., Formicidae) para Sierra Mágina (Andalucía)." Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 35, no. 3-4 (2011): 497-501.
• Shattuck S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112: i-xix, 1-241.
• Tinaut A. 2016. Ants of the Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Mountains Natural Park (Andalusia, Spain) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Boln. Asoc. esp. Ent., 40 (1-2): 125-159.
• Tinaut A., and F. J. Ortiz. 1988. Introduccion al conocimiento de las hormigas de la provincia de Almeria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Publicaciones del Instituto de Estudios Almerienses. Boletín (Ciencias) 8: 223-231.
• Tinaut, A., J. Jiménez Rojas, and R. Pascual. "Estudio de la mirmecofauna de los bosques de Quercus Linneo 1753 de la provincia de Granada." Ecología 8 (1995): 429-438.
• Tinaut, A. "Evolución anual de la mirmecocenosis de un encinar." Boletín de la Estación Central de Ecología 11 (1982): 49-56.