Temnothorax spinosior

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Temnothorax spinosior
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Temnothorax
Species group: palearctic
Species: T. spinosior
Binomial name
Temnothorax spinosior
(Forel, 1901)

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Specimen Labels


Common Name
Harinaga-muneboso-ari
Language: Japanese

Terayama and Onoyama (1999) - T. spinosior is found in dry open areas, such as grasslands and bare places. It nests in the soil. A queen body size dimorphism is known (Hamaguchi & Kinomura, 1996). Most larger queens are found in monogynous colonies while most smaller queens are found in polygynous colonies. Workers are found on the ground, seldom on trees. Nuptial flights occur in July (Sonobe, 1980). The chromosome number is 2n = 24 (Imai & Yosida, 1965). (Japanese Ant Image Database)

Identification

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

Radchenko (2004) - T. spinosior most resembles Temnothorax eburneipes with notes about the distinctions between these two species noted under the latter.

Terayama and Onoyama (1999) - Total length of workers around 2 mm. Body color black to blackish brown. Scapes almost reaching posterior margin of head in full-face view. Dorsal outline of mesosoma weakly and evenly convex in profile. Metanotal groove incised dorsally. Propodeal. spines long, acute and narrow somewhat downcurved. Petiolar node in profile triangular (in some specimens dorsum narrowly convex and not angulate), with weakly convex posterior margin (almost straight in some specimens).

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 43.064615° to 29.383333°.

   
North
Temperate 		North
Subtropical 		Tropical South
Subtropical 		South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: China, Japan (type locality), Republic of Korea.

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

This species is a host for the ant Temnothorax bikara (a slave maker) in Japan (Japanese Ant Image Database).

Flight Period

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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

 Notes: Japan.

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • spinosior. Leptothorax congruus var. spinosior Forel, 1901e: 371 (w.) JAPAN. Wheeler, W.M. 1906c: 317 (q.); Imai, 1966: 119 (k.). Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271. Raised to species: Terayama & Satoh, 1990b: 532. See also: Terayama & Onoyama, 1999: 93.

Type Material

Terayama and Onoyama (1999) - Worker. Type locality: Sapporo (Matsumura leg.). [Two syntype workers in Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Genève examined.] Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Karyotype

  • n = 12, 2n = 24 (Japan) (Imai, 1966; Imai, 1969; Imai, 1974; Imai & Yosida, 1964; Fischer, 1987) (as Leptothorax spinosior).

Determination Clarifications

All the previous records of T. spinosior from Yaku Island (Terayama & Yamane, 1984) were Temnothorax anira, and no reliable record of this species is known from the island.

Radchenko (2004) - Among rich investigated material from North Korea (more than 100 specimens) I did not find T. spinosior, but Temnothorax eburneipes only; records of T. spinosior from South Korea and China need confirmation.

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