Tetramorium flavidulum
Tetramorium flavidulum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Tetramorium |
Species: | T. flavidulum |
Binomial name | |
Tetramorium flavidulum Emery, 1924 |
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Türkiye (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. |
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- flavidulum. Tetramorium caespitum var. flavidula Santschi, 1910e: 650.
- Type-material: holotype? worker.
- Type-locality: Turkey (“Kleinasien”).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- [First available use of Tetramorium caespitum subsp. caespitum var. flavidula Emery, 1909d: 702 (w.) TURKEY; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- [Misspelled as flaxidula by Finzi, 1928c: 789.]
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925c: 178.
- Subspecies of caespitum: Emery, 1924d: 276; Emery, 1925c: 178; Finzi, 1928c: 789; Bolton, 1995b: 407; Legakis, 2011: 21; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 26.
- Status as species: Borowiec, L. 2014: 198 (error?); Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 50.
- Distribution: Greece, Romania, Turkey.
Description
References
- 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. 1924f [1922]. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C: 207-397 (page 276, worker described)
- Karaman, C., Kiran, K. 2022. Additional records of parasitic Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species from Turkey with queen description of Camponotus ruseni Karaman, 2012. Zoology in the Middle East 68(2), 156–164 (doi:10.1080/09397140.2022.2051918).
- Kiran, K., Karaman, C. 2020. Additions to the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 42(18), 285-329 (doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a18).