Temnothorax unifasciatus (lat.) Is a species of small-sized ants of the genus Temnothorax of the tribe Formicoxenini from the subfamily Myrmicinae of the family Formicidae [1] .
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 Work Ant Temnothorax unifasciatus | ||||||||||||||||
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| Temnothorax unifasciatus ( Latreille , 1798) |
Content
- 1 Distribution
- 2 Description
- 3 Systematics
- 4 See also
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
Distribution
Europe , from Portugal and France to Sweden , Russia , Ukraine , Armenia and Georgia [1] [2] .
Description
Small yellowish ants (2-3 mm), head darker. They are distinguished by a brown band on the first tergite of a yellowish abdomen. The antennae of workers and females are 12-segmented (in males of 13 segments), the club is 3-segmented. Scape of antennae reaches the occipital margin of the head. Propodeal spines on metatarsal developed, of medium length, pointed, directed back and up, wide at the base. Small families live in nests located in the litter and wood residues, sometimes under stones. Families include over 200 working ants. Winged females and males appear in July and August [1] [2] [3] .
Systematics
The species Temnothorax unifasciatus was first described in 1798 by the French entomologist Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833) [4] under the original name Formica unifasciata , since 1855 in the genus Leptothorax (one and a half centuries has been referred to as Leptothorax unifasciatus ). The genus Temnothorax was first identified in 2003 ( Bolton , 2003: 272) [1] [2] .
See also
- Leptothorax muscorum
- Temnothorax albipennis
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 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. 541. - 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.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Collingwood, CA 1979. The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomol. Scand. 8: 1-174 (page 74)
- ↑ Radchenko, AG A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 2. Groups tuberum, corticalis, affinis, clypeatus, alinae and singularis (English) // Vestn. Zool. : Journal. - 1995. - Vol. 2-3. - P. 14-21. (page 15, senior synonym for taxa brauneri, kirillovi, salina and ucrainicus ))
- ↑ Latreille, PA 1798. Essai sur l'histoire des fourmis de la France. Brive: F. Bourdeaux, 50 pp. (page 47, description of the worker, female and male)
Literature
- Arnoldi K.V. (1971). New species and review of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of lowland Kazakhstan // Zoological journal . 1971.V. 50, No. 12. P. 1818-1826.
- Arnoldi, C.V. (1977). New and little-known species of ants of the genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the European part of the USSR and the Caucasus // Entomological Review . 1977. T. 56, No. 1. S. 198-204.
- Bolton B. (1982). Afrotropical species of the myrmicine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). - Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 45: 307-370.
- Radchenko A. ( 2004 ). A review of the ant genera Leptothorax Mayr and Temnothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Eastern Palaearctic. - Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , 50 (2): 109-137.