Temnothorax kutteri

Temnothorax kutteri
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Temnothorax
Species group:	palearctic
Species:	T. kutteri
Binomial name
Temnothorax kutteri (Cagniant, 1973) Specimen Labels

This species exhibits a form of social parasitism.

At a Glance

• Dulotic

 

Identification

Prebus (2017) - A member of the Palearctic clade.

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 42.492222° to 37.118611°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: France (type locality), Iberian Peninsula, Spain.

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.

Biology

This species is a slave-maker with the following hosts:

• Temnothorax aveli (rare host) (Acosta Salmerón et al., 1983)
• Temnothorax aveli (rare host) (Cagniant, 1973)
• Temnothorax aveli (Beibl et al., 2007; de la Mora et al., 2021)
• Temnothorax exilis (fairly common host) (Espadaler & Restrepo, 1983)
• Temnothorax exilis (rare host) (Acosta Salmerón et al., 1983)
• Temnothorax exilis (Beibl et al., 2007; de la Mora et al., 2021)
• Temnothorax niger (rare host) (Cagniant, 1973)
• Temnothorax niger (Beibl et al., 2007; de la Mora et al., 2021)
• Temnothorax racovitzai (most common host) (Buschinger et al., 1988)
• Temnothorax racovitzai (rare host) (Cagniant, 1973)
• Temnothorax racovitzai (Beibl et al., 2007; de la Mora et al., 2021)
• Temnothorax recedens (Espadaler & Restrepo, 1983; Beibl et al., 2007; de la Mora et al., 2021)
• Temnothorax unifasciatus (rare host) (Espadaler & Restrepo, 1983)
• Temnothorax unifasciatus (Beibl et al., 2005; Beibl et al., 2007; de la Mora et al., 2021)

Life History Traits

• Queen number: monogynous (Ehrhardt, 1982; Frumhoff & Ward, 1992)

Nomenclature

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

• kutteri. Chalepoxenus kutteri Cagniant, 1973: 148, figs. 1-4 (w.q.m.) FRANCE. Combination in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2014: 15.

Description

Karyotype

• n = 12 (France) (Fischer, 1987) (as Chalepoxenus kutteri).

References

• Acosta Salmerón, F. J.; Martínez, M. D.; Morales, M. 1983. Contribución al conocimiento de la mirmecofauna del encinar peninsular (1). (Hym. Formicidae). Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomologia 6:379-391. [1983-06]
• Beibl, J., Buschinger, A., Foitzik, S., Heinze, J. 2007. Phylogeny and phylogeography of the Mediterranean species of the parasitic ant genus Chalepoxenus and its Temnothorax hosts. Insectes Sociaux 54, 189-199 (doi:10.1007/s00040-007-0932-y).
• Buschinger, A. 2009. Social parasitism among ants: a review (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 12: 219-235.
• Buschinger, A., Ehrhardt, W., Fischer, K., Ofer, J. 1988. The slave-making ant genus Chalepoxenus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). I. Review of literature, range, slave species. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 115: 383-401.
• Cagniant, H. 1973. Description et représentation des trois castes de Chalepoxenus kutteri (nov. sp.) (Hyménoptères Formicidae - Myrmicidae). Insectes Sociaux 20: 145-156 (doi:10.1007/BF02223345).
• Catarineu, C., Barberá, G.G., Reyes-López, J.L. 2018. Zoogeography of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of southeastern Iberian Peninsula. Sociobiology 65, 383-396 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v65i3.2822).
• de la Mora, A., Sankovitz, M., Purcell, J. 2020. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as host and intruder: recent advances and future directions in the study of exploitative strategies. Myrmecological News 30: 53-71 (doi:10.25849/MYRMECOL.NEWS_030:053).
• Espadaler, X., & Restrepo, C. 1983. Els generes Epimyrma Emery i Chalepoxenus Menozzi, formigues parasites socials (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a la peninsula Iberica. Estat actual des coneixement. Bull. Inst. Cat. Hist. Nat. 49: 123-126.
• Prebus, M. 2017. Insights into the evolution, biogeography and natural history of the acorn ants, genus Temnothorax Mayr (hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 17:250. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1095-8 (The doi link to the publication's journal webpage provides access to the 24 files that accompany this article).
• Tinaut, A., Ruano, F. 2021. Biogeography of Iberian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Diversity 13, 88. (doi:10.3390/d13020088).
• Ward, P.S., Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L., Schultz, T.R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40: 61–81 ({doi|10.1111/syen.12090}}).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Acosta, F. J., M. D. Martínez Ibáñez, and M. A. Morales. "Contribución al conocimiento de la mirmecofauna del encinar peninsular. I." Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 6 (2) (1983): 379-391.
• Acosta, F. J. Las comunidades de hormigas en las etapas seriales del encinar. Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 1980.
• AntArea. Accessed on February 5th 2014 at http://antarea.fr/fourmi/
• Antarea (at www.antarea.fr on June 11th 2017)
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• Beibl, J., A. Buschinger, S. Foitzik and J. Heinze. 2007. Phylogeny and phylogeography of the Mediterranean species of the parasitic ant genus Chalepoxenus and its Temnothorax hosts. Insectes Sociaux 54:189-199
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