Pheidole pallidula

Pheidole pallidula
	Pheidole pallidula soldier head
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Belly-bellied
Family:	Ants
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Pheidolini
Gender:	Pheidole
View:	Pheidole pallidula
Latin name
	Pheidole pallidula Nylander , 1849
Synonyms
	Myrmica pallidula Nylander, 1849; Pheidole cicatricosa stitz; Pheidole cicatriosa stitz; Pheidole pallidula arenarum ruzsky; Pheidole pallidula orientalis Müller; Pheidole pallidula cicatricosa stitz; Pheidole arenarum ruzsky; Oecophthora subdentata mayr; Xenoaphaenogaster inquilina Baroni Urbani;

Pheidole pallidula (lat.) - a species of ants of the genus Pheidole from the subfamily Myrmicinae ( Formicidae ). Palearctic. Brownish-yellow small ants. Length: 1.8-4.5 mm (workers and soldiers), 6-8 mm (females) ^[3] . The species was originally described in 1849 as part of the Myrmica genus based on materials from Sicily by the Finnish naturalist William Nyulander . In 1855 it was included in the genus Pheidole (Smith, 1858) ^[2] ^[4] . These ants serve as hosts for the ectoparasitic fungi Myrmicinosporidium durum ( Laboulbeniales , Ascomycota ); (Espadaler & Santamaria, 2012) ^[5] .

Content

Distribution

The Palaearctic (including North Africa and the Middle East ), mainly in the Mediterranean . It is represented in Europe in the following countries ^[6] : Albania , Austria , Greece (including Crete ), Spain (including Madeira ), Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily ), Cyprus , Macedonia , Malta , Monaco , Portugal , Russia , Romania , Slovenia , Turkey , France (including Corsica ), Yugoslavia , as well as the Balearic and Canary Islands .

Worker's head
Side worker
Side soldier
Soldier on top

Systematics

The species contains several subspecies:

Pheidole pallidula inermis Stitz, 1917 ^[7]
- Pheidole pallidula selenia Özdikmen, 2010 (proposed to replace the younger homonym inermis ) ^[8]
Pheidole pallidula koshewnikovi Ruzsky , 1905
Pheidole pallidula obscura Santschi, 1936
Pheidole pallidula pallidula (Nylander, 1849)
Pheidole pallidula recticeps Menozzi, 1932 ^[9]
Pheidole pallidula tristis Forel , 1907
- Pheidole pallidula tasdelenia Özdikmen, 2010 (proposed to replace the younger homonym tristis ) ^[8]

Notes

↑ Nylander, W. Additamentum alterum adnotationum in monographiam formicarum borealium // Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae. - 1849. - T. 3 . - S. 25-48 .
↑ ¹ ² Antweb.org (Pheidole) (English) (Retrieved April 29, 2012)
↑ 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. 537.- 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.
↑ Wilson EO Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus . - Cambridge, MA .: Harvard University Press , 2003 .-- 794 p. - ISBN 0-674-00293-8 .
↑ Espadaler, X., Santamaria, S. Ecto- and Endoparasitic Fungi on Ants from the Holarctic Region (English) // Psyche : Journal. - 2012. - No. ID 168478 . - P. 1-10. - DOI : 10.1155 / 2012/168478 .
↑ Pheidole pallidula on faunaeur.org
↑ Stitz, H. 1917: Ameisen aus dem westlichen Mittelmeergebiet und von den Kanarischen Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologische Museum in Berlin, 8: 333-353.
↑ ¹ ² Özdikmen, H. 2010: New names for the preoccupied specific and subspecific epithets in the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Munis entomology & zoology, 5: 804-806.
↑ Menozzi, C. 1932: Spedizione scientifica all'Oasi di Cufra (Marzo-Luglio 1931). Formiche. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova), 55: 451-456.

Literature

Dlussky G.M. 1976 . Organization of group foraging in ant Pheidole pallidula // Group animal behavior: Dokl. 2 All conf. on the behavior of animals. 1976.P. 97 - 99.
Wilson EO Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus . - Cambridge, MA .: Harvard University Press , 2003 .-- 794 p. - ISBN 0-674-00293-8 .

Links

Pheidole pallidula (neopr.) . Encyclopedia of Life. Date of treatment April 29, 2012. Archived May 25, 2012.

Pheidole pallidula (neopr.) . faunaeur.org. Date of treatment April 29, 2012. Archived May 25, 2012.

[Nylander1849-1] Nylander, W. Additamentum alterum adnotationum in monographiam formicarum borealium // Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae. - 1849. - T. 3 . - S. 25-48 .

[antweb-2] ¹ ² Antweb.org (Pheidole) (English) (Retrieved April 29, 2012)

[key31-3] 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. 537.- 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.

[Wilson2003-4] Wilson EO Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus . - Cambridge, MA .: Harvard University Press , 2003 .-- 794 p. - ISBN 0-674-00293-8 .

[Espadaler2012-5] Espadaler, X., Santamaria, S. Ecto- and Endoparasitic Fungi on Ants from the Holarctic Region (English) // Psyche : Journal. - 2012. - No. ID 168478 . - P. 1-10. - DOI : 10.1155 / 2012/168478 .

[faunaeur-6] Pheidole pallidula on faunaeur.org

[Stitz1917-7] Stitz, H. 1917: Ameisen aus dem westlichen Mittelmeergebiet und von den Kanarischen Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologische Museum in Berlin, 8: 333-353.

[zdikmen-8] ¹ ² Özdikmen, H. 2010: New names for the preoccupied specific and subspecific epithets in the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Munis entomology & zoology, 5: 804-806.

[Menozzi1932-9] Menozzi, C. 1932: Spedizione scientifica all'Oasi di Cufra (Marzo-Luglio 1931). Formiche. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova), 55: 451-456.