Tugai ant [1] [2] ( lat. Formica subpilosa ) - a species of medium-sized ants of the genus Formica from the subfamily Formicina ( Formicinae ).
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Distribution
Afghanistan, Transcaucasia, Iran, Central Asia. [3] Lower Volga region ( Volgograd region , Russia). [four]
Description
The length of the workers is about 4-6 mm, females and males up to 10 mm. Workers have red chest and head (the abdomen is darker), and more than 5 pairs of spaced hairs on the pro-mesonotum (anterior and middle upper chest). Under the head there are also several pairs of spaced hairs. In males, the abdomen is lighter than the chest: yellow or brown-yellow. [1] [3] Along river valleys, in oases and tugai, along the banks of reservoirs and canals, near groundwater. It uses a variety of insects and other arthropods as food, and also collects the secretions of sucking juices of equal-winged insects, primarily aphids, which are kept on willows and camel spines . There are both single nests and colonial settlements. In Turkmenistan, the mating flight of females and males is observed in June. Nests are located near shrubs, the main chambers and passages are located at a depth of 50-70 cm. They exhibit daytime activity, but in hot weather they hide in shelters of the soil and in the anthill itself. [3]
Systematics
The tugai ant was first described in 1902 by the Russian worldmecologist Mikhail Dmitrievich Ruzsky based on materials (which contained only working individuals) collected by the St. Petersburg zoologist Lev Semenovich Berg from the shores of the Aral Sea as one of the forms of the red-faced ant under the name Formica rufibarbis var. subpilosa Ruzsky, 1902 . Females and males were later described by Ukrainian entomologist Vladimir Afanasevich Karavaev (1910). Several sub-species previously distinguished [5] have recently been given the status of independent species (Seifert & Schultz, 2009). [6]
- Formica subpilosa Ruzsky, 1902
- Formica subpilosa clarissima Emery , 1925
- Formica subpilosa litoralis Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926
- Formica subpilosa pamirica Dlussky , 1965
- Formica subpilosa subpilosa Ruzsky, 1902
See also
- Tugai woodbearing ant ( Camponotus lameerei )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. III. Hymenoptera. The first part // Suborder Apocrita - Calf-bellied ( Arnoldi K.V. et al.) / Under the general. ed. G. S. Medvedev . - L .: Nauka, 1978.- S. 553. - 584 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 119). - 3500 copies.
- ↑ Striganova B.R. , Zakharov A.A. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names: Insects (Latin-Russian-English-German-French) /Ed. Dr. biol. sciences, prof. B.R. Striganova . - M .: RUSSO, 2000 .-- S. 297. - 1060 copies. - ISBN 5-88721-162-8 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Dlussky G.M., Soyunov O.S., Zabelin S.I. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashgabat: Ylym. 1989 (1990). 273 p. - S. 140.
- ↑ Grebennikov K.A., Dubovikov D.A., Savranskaya Zh.V., 2002. Fauna and ecological features of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Lower Volga. Biodiversity of insects in the southeast of the European part of Russia. Volgograd. S. 178-195.
- ↑ Dlussky G.M. 1967. Ants of the genus Formica.
- ↑ Seifert, B., Schultz, R., 2009. A taxonomic revision of the Formica subpilosa Ruzsky, 1902 group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). // Myrmecol. News, 12: 67-83.
Literature
- Dlussky G. M. Ants of the genus Formica. - M .: Science. 1967 .-- 236 p.
- Dilman P.N. 1978. Ant Formica subpilosa Rurz, new additional owner of Dicrocoelium lanceatum Stiles et Hassall, 1896. // Proceedings of the Tajik SSR Veterinary Research Institute. Dushanbe, 1978, v. 8: 88-89.
- Dilman P.N. 1979. Seasonal variations in the prevalence of Dicrocoelium lanceatum metacercariae in the ants (Formica cunicularia and F. subpilosa) in the foothills of southern Tadzhikistan. [in Russian]. // Proceedings of the Research Veterinary Institute of the Tajik SSR. 9: 74-76.