Tetramorium striativentre (lat.) Is a species of ants of the genus Tetramorium from the subfamily Myrmicinae ( Formicidae ) [1] .
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Spread
Mountains of Central and Central Asia. Afghanistan , Iran , northwest China , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan . Inhabits the mountain, mountain-steppe and semi-desert regions. Nests in the soil and under stones [1] [2] .
Description
Small earth ants; working length 3-4 mm (females are larger, 4-5 mm). The length of the workers head (HL) is 0.77–0.91 mm, the head width (HW) is 0.73–0.85 mm. Head with subparallel almost straight sides. The main body color is reddish-brown (the males are brownish-black). Antennae of workers and females 12-segmented with 3-segmented mace. The lateral parts of the clypeus are keel-shaped raised near the place of attachment of the antennae. The mandibles are wide triangular with a dentate chewing edge. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of two segments: the petiolus and the postpetiolus (the latter is clearly separated from the abdomen), the sting is developed, the pupae are bare (without cocoon ). Posterior loin with 2 short and wide propodeal spines. Abdominal tergite I with longitudinal wrinkling and punctation (the hallmark of the Tetramorium striativentre species group), the last segments of the abdomen are smooth; wrinkled head and breast. Zooekrofagi, collect small arthropods and their residues, as well as plant seeds (carpophages). Seed stocks are up to 330 mg (data for Turkmenistan). Families include 1-5 thousand ants. Marriage flight from May to June [1] .
Taxonomy
Included in the species group Tetramorium striativentre species group. The species was first described in 1877 by the Austrian myrmecologist Gustav Mayr ( Austria ) on the type material from Uzbekistan (collected by the expedition of A. P. Fedchenko) under the original name Tetramorium caespitum var. striativentre Mayr, 1877 [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 AG Radchenko, A. Scupola. Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). (English) // Bulletin of Zoology: Journal. - Kiev, 2015. - Vol. 49, no. 3 - P. 219-244. DOI 10.1515 / vzoo-2015-0024
- ↑ Dlussky G. M. , Soyunov O. S., Zabelin S. I. Ants of Turkmenistan. - Ashgabat: Ylym, 1989. - p. 208. - 273 p.
Literature
- Dlussky G. M. , Soyunov O. S., Zabelin S. I. Ants of Turkmenistan. - Ashgabat: Ylym, 1989. - P. 140-142. - 273 s.
- Radchenko A.G. Ants of the genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the fauna of the USSR. Communication 1 and 2 // Zoological journal . - 1992. T. 71, № 8. S. 39 - 49 and 50 - 58.
- Bolton, B. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region . // Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. - 1980. 40: 193-384.