Myrmica ritae (lat.) Is a species of small ants of the genus Myrmica ( myrmycin subfamily) [1] .
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| Myrmica ritae Emery , 1889 |
Content
- 1 Distribution
- 2 Description
- 3 Systematics
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Distribution
South Asia : northern Myanmar and Thailand (data from southern China and Nepal require confirmation). Found at altitudes from 1000 to 1950 meters above sea level. In Thailand, found a nest in wood [1]
Description
Small brown ants (with a yellowish head and legs), body length of about 5 mm with very long spines of the posterior thorax. Almost the entire body (head and breast, stalk) is covered with coarse longitudinal wrinkles. On the head between wrinkles, punctures and retinality are absent. The scape of the antennae of the workers is long; petiol is also elongated. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of two segments: petiolus and postpetiolus (the latter is clearly separated from the abdomen), the sting is developed, pupae are naked (without cocoon ) [1] [2] .
Systematics
It is close to species from the Myrmica ritae -complex complex and the Myrmica ritae- group, characterized by straight longitudinal wrinkles of the body and a yellowish head, contrasting with the brown breast. The most distinctive feature of this species is an extremely rough sculpture of the upper surface of the head, where only 4 wrinkles are located between the frontal ridges and the eyes (only species Myrmica pulchella , Myrmica sinensis , Myrmica emeryi , Myrmica margaritae have similar signs of rough wrinkling). The species was first described in 1889 by the Italian worldmecologist Carl Emery from two type specimens found in 1887 in northern Burma . The name of the species was allegedly given in honor of the wife of the author, Rita Emery [1] [3] [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Radchenko, A .; Elmes, GW Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Old World. - Warszawa: Museum and Institute of Zoology, 2010 .-- P. 199. - 1-789 p. - (Fauna mundi, 3). - ISBN 978-83-930773-1-1 .
- ↑ Bingham, CT 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. - London : Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 267)
- ↑ Radchenko, AG; Elmes, GW 1998. Taxonomic revision of the ritae species-group of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). - Vestn. Zool. 32 (4): 3-27
- ↑ Emery, C. 1889. Formiche di Birmania e del Tenasserim raccolte da Leonardo Fea (1885-87). [part]. - Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 27 [= (2) (7): 485-512 (page 502, description of the worker)
Literature
- Bolton, B. A new general catalog of the ants of the world. - Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1995 .-- 504 p.
- Bolton B. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. (English) // Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. - Gainesville, FL: American Entomological Institute, 2003. - Vol. 71 . - P. 1-370 . - ISBN 1-887988-15-7 .
Links
- Myrmica eol.org. - Taxonomy. Date of treatment July 23, 2014.