Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Formica marginata var. pilicornis Roger, 1859 PDF: 228 (s.w.q.) SPAIN, ITALY, CROATIA. Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: workers, queen(s) Spain: Andalusia, Balearic Is, and Pyrenees (no further data), queens Italy: Sicily, Messina (
C. Zeller), Croatia: Lagosta I. (= Lastovo I.) (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MNHU.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Subspecies of
Camponotus sylvaticus:
André, 1882b PDF: 146;
Forel, 1886e PDF: clxvii;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 253;
Emery, 1920d 10.5281/zenodo.25547 PDF: 7;
Menozzi, 1922c PDF: 331;
Emery, 1924c PDF: 170;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 101;
Santschi, 1925g PDF: 356;
Donisthorpe, 1927a PDF: 8;
Santschi, 1931a: 11;
Santschi, 1932e PDF: 71;
Santschi, 1932h PDF: 4;
Ceballos, 1956: 314.
Status as species:
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 76;
Schmitz, 1950 PDF: 13;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 82;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 186;
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 91 (in key);
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 284 (in key);
Bolton, 1995b: 117;
Mei, 1995 PDF: 767;
Poldi et al., 1995: 7;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 27;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 24 (in key);
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 109 (in key);
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 480;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 32;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 39 (see note in bibliography);
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 18;
Lebas et al., 2016: 152;
Arcos et al., 2022 10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7623 PDF: 10.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Asia: Philippines Europe: France,
Gibraltar,
Italy,
Portugal,
Spain Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Indomalaya,
Palearctic
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 3 times found in Pinar, 1 times found in Torrentera seca/Pinar, 2 times found in Pinus halepensis+pistacea lentiscus, 2 times found in Encinar, 2 times found in Prados, 2 times found in jaral, 1 times found in oak woodland, 1 times found in open forest, 1 times found in open meadow on rocks, 1 times found in Pinar+encinar, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 10 times nbp, 5 times under stone, 2 times Nido bajo piedra, 2 times Forrajeando, 1 times Sobre Alnus glutinosa.
Collected most commonly using these methods: 20 times Hand, 5 times search.
Elevations: collected from 30 - 1300 meters, 661 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1990-08-31 00:00:00.0 and 2016-06-18 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: syntype of Camponotus massiliensis: casent0910280, casent0910281; type of Formica marginata pilicornis: focol2911, focol2912, focol2913
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