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Plagiolepis pyrenaica
| Plagiolepis pyrenaica | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Plagiolepidini |
| Genus: | Plagiolepis |
| Species: | P. pyrenaica |
| Binomial name | |
| Plagiolepis pyrenaica Emery, 1921 | |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on type material
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. |
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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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- pyrenaica. Plagiolepis barbara var. pyrenaica Emery, 1921d: 315, fig. I (6,7) (w.) FRANCE.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: France: Pyrénées orientales, Banyuls (de Saulcy).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- Subspecies of barbara: Emery, 1925b: 20; Bernard, 1950a: 21.
- Subspecies of schmitzii: Bolton, 1995b: 336.
- Junior synonym of taurica: Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 485; Radchenko, 2016: 343.
- Junior synonym of pallescens: Salata, Borowiec & Radchenko, 2018: 812 (by implication).
- Status as species: Seifert, 2018: 250; Kirschner et al., 2023: 1166.
Description
References
- Kirschner, P., Seifert, B., Kröll, J., Schlick‐Steiner, B.C., Steiner, F.M. 2023. Phylogenomic inference and demographic model selection suggest peripatric separation of the cryptic steppe ant species Plagiolepis pyrenaica stat. rev. Molecular Ecology 32(5), 1149–1168 (doi:10.1111/mec.16828).
- Salata, S., Borowiec, L., Radchenko, A.G. 2018. Description of Plagiolepis perperamus, a new species from East-Mediterranean and redescription of Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68(4): 809-824 (doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.005).
- Seifert, B. 2018. The Ants of Central and North Europe. lutra Verlags– und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Tauer, Germany, 408 pp.