Myrmica vandeli (lat.) - a species of small ants of the genus Myrmica ( myrmycin subfamily). Presumably an optional social parasite of other ants [1] .
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Distribution
Europe It is found sporadically in countries such as Austria , the United Kingdom (England and Wales), Germany , Romania , Slovakia , France , the Czech Republic , Sweden , Switzerland , western Ukraine (Transcarpathian region), the former Yugoslavia [1] [2] , and also Bulgaria [ 3] , Spain [4] , Poland [5] .
Description
Small brown ants (about 5 mm) are similar to Myrmica scabrinodis , with long spines of the posterior thorax. M. vandeli has several “socio-parasitic” symptoms, such as reduced lower leg spurs of the middle and hind legs and hairy body, which reminds Myrmica bibikoffi and Myrmica hirsuta . The males have a long tendon scapus, and the females are large (larger than in closely related species) and almost black. On the other hand, workers of M. vandeli are very close to Myrmica scabrinodis in the shape of the chest and stalk, the size and shape of the blade on the bend of the scapus of the temple, the shape of the frontal ridges and grooves, but differs by more plentiful spaced hairs throughout the body (petiol with> 10, often> 20 hairs vs. <10, usually ~ 8 hairs), less coarse, almost straight longitudinal wrinkles of the upper chest (vs. strong furrow and retina in M. scabrinodis ) and a reduced sculpture of the dorsal surface of the petiol and postpetiol, and reduced ankle spurs. Antennae 12-segmented, mace of 4 segments. The stalk between the breast and the abdomen consists of two segments: the petiolus and postpetiolus (the latter is clearly separated from the abdomen), the sting is developed, pupae are naked (without cocoon). Petiol with a long front stalk. The abdomen is smooth and shiny [1] .
They live in open moist glades, meadows, and swamps, often coexisting with Myrmica scabrinodis (supposedly an optional social parasite of this species). Anthills are usually located in moss bumps, sometimes under stones. Polygynous families (with several queen bees ) include up to 1,500 working ants [1] [2] .
Systematics
It is close to the complex of species Myrmica sabuleti from the species group Myrmica scabrinodis -group. The species was first described in 1920 by the French worldmecologist J. Bondroit ( Jean Bondroit , 1882-1952) from females and males from France and named after the French biologist Professor Albert Vandel (Prof. Albert Vandel; 1894-1980), who collected the type series. For more than 50 years, the species was known only from the type series, and only then they discovered a caste of workers and new localities [1] [6] [7] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Radchenko, A .; Elmes, GW Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Old World. - Warszawa: Museum and Institute of Zoology, 2010 .-- P. 315-317. - 1-789 p. - (Fauna mundi, 3). - ISBN 978-83-930773-1-1 .
- ↑ 1 2 Zsolt Czekes, Alexander G. Radchenko, Sándor Csősz, Annamária Szász-Len, Ioan Tăuşan, Klára Benedek & Bálint Markó. (2012). The genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Romania: distribution of species and key for their identification. - Entomologica romanica 17: 29-50. ISSN 1224-2594.
- ↑ Stankiewicz, AM; Antonova, V. 2005. Myrmica vandeli Bondroit (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - a new ant species to Bulgaria. Acta Zool. Bulg. 57: 123-126 (page 123, record in Bulgaria)
- ↑ Galkowski C. (2010). Découverte de Myrmica vandeli Bondroit, 1920 dans les Pyrénées Orientales (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revue de l'Association roussillonnaise d'Entomologie 19 (1): 11-12.
- ↑ Radchenko, A .; Elmes, GW; Czechowska, W .; Stankiewicz, A .; Czechowski, W .; Sielezniew, M. (2003). First records of Myrmica vandeli Bondroit and M. tulinae Elmes, Radchenko et Aktaç (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for Poland, with a key for the scabrinodis- and sabuleti-complexes. Fragm. Faun. (Warsaw) 46: 47-57 (page 47)
- ↑ Bondroit, J. Notes diverses sur des fourmis d'Europe (Fr.) // Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg .. - 1920 [1919]. - Vol. 59. - P. 143-158 (page 148, figs. 1, 2 description of females and males).
- ↑ Bondroit, J. Supplément aux fourmis de France et de Belgique (French) // Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr .. - 1920. - Vol. 88. - P. 299-305 (page 301, also described as new).
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 .
- Szász-Len AM et al. 2011. Habitat preference of Myrmica vandeli Bondroit, 1920 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and its place in the ant communities Entomologica romanica 16: 64.
Links
- Myrmica eol.org. - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 29, 2016.