Temnothorax anodontoides

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Temnothorax anodontoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Temnothorax
Species group: anodontoides
Species: T. anodontoides
Binomial name
Temnothorax anodontoides
(Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985)

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Specimen Labels

Schulz et al. (2007) recorded this species from mainland Greece but with some doubts on full conspecifity of Greek and Asian populations (Borowiec, 2014).

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Turkmenistan (type locality).

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

Nomenclature

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

  • anodontoides. Leptothorax anodontoides Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 227, fig. 5 (w.) TURKMENIA. Radchenko, 1995d: 8 (m.). Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271.

Type Material

Types studied by Salata et al. (2018): Temnothorax anodontoides: Syntype (w.): [Paratypus Leptoth. | anodontoides | Dlussky et Zabelin || 81-171 || C. Забеицш | Колег-Даг |Кара-су 6.V.81] (UASK).


Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
  • Kuznetsov G. T. 1990. Comparative analysis of Hymenoptera (Formicidae) population on altitudinal zones of central Kopetdag. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1990(3): 64-67.