Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 4 valid subspecies
Tetramorium caespitum var. semilaeve André, 1883a: 286 (w.) FRANCE. Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Borowiec et al., 2015 PDF: 42). Primary type locality: lectotype France: Pyrénées Orientales. Primary type depository: MNHN. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 5 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but (
de Saulcy) Secondary type depository: MNHN. Type notes: Original type locality: Mediterranean region (“répandue dans toute la région méditerranéenne de l’Europe, de l’Afrique et de l’Asie”).
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Subspecies of
Tetramorium caespitum:
Nasonov, 1889: 30;
Emery, 1893m PDF: 131 (footnote), 134;
Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 32;
Forel, 1902a PDF: 148;
Forel, 1904c PDF: 371;
Forel, 1904d PDF: 5;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 537;
Emery, 1909f PDF: 703;
Forel, 1909k PDF: 381;
Santschi, 1910e PDF: 650;
Forel, 1911f PDF: 333;
Karavaiev, 1912a PDF: 14;
Krausse, 1912c PDF: 164;
Emery, 1914c PDF: 158;
Emery, 1915f PDF: 1;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 194;
Stitz, 1917 PDF: 339;
Santschi, 1921a PDF: 111;
Santschi, 1921b PDF: 428;
Menozzi, 1921 PDF: 30;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b PDF: 254;
Santschi, 1923a PDF: 135;
Emery, 1924a PDF: 8;
Emery, 1924f PDF: 278;
Emery, 1925a PDF: 179;
Santschi, 1925g PDF: 347;
Wheeler, 1926a PDF: 4;
Menozzi, 1926b PDF: 182;
Karavaiev, 1926c PDF: 169;
Santschi, 1926f PDF: 287;
Kutter, 1927a PDF: 100;
Menozzi, 1927e PDF: 117;
Wheeler, 1927g PDF: 111;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b PDF: 43;
Röszler, 1935 PDF: 75;
Ceballos, 1956: 308;
Hamann & Klemm, 1976 PDF: 673.
Status as species:
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 109;
Müller, 1923a PDF: 72;
Müller, 1923b PDF: 104;
Santschi, 1927b PDF: 54;
Santschi, 1929e PDF: 150;
Finzi, 1930d PDF: 315;
Cori & Finzi, 1931 PDF: 239;
Santschi, 1931a: 10;
Finzi, 1933 PDF: 164;
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 101;
Zimmermann, 1935 PDF: 38;
Santschi, 1936c PDF: 202;
Finzi, 1940 PDF: 162;
Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 85 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1950e PDF: 1062;
Bernard, 1956b PDF: 259;
Bernard, 1959a PDF: 349;
Dlussky, 1962 PDF: 179;
Baroni Urbani, 1964a PDF: 5;
Baroni Urbani, 1964b PDF: 54;
Baroni Urbani, 1964c PDF: 158;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 234 (redescription);
Baroni Urbani, 1968e PDF: 465;
Cagniant, 1968a PDF: 144;
Kutter, 1968b PDF: 60;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 74;
Cagniant, 1970a PDF: 430;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 141;
Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 235;
Baroni Urbani, 1976b PDF: 214;
Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 545 (in key);
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 86 (in key);
Schembri & Collingwood, 1981 PDF: 435;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 56;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 277 (in key);
Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990c PDF: 421;
López, 1991a: 36;
López, 1991b: 76;
Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 153;
López et al., 1992: 169;
Radchenko, 1992a PDF: 47 (in key);
Radchenko, 1992b PDF: 51;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 67;
Bolton, 1995b: 414;
Mei, 1995 PDF: 766;
Poldi et al., 1995: 6;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 31;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 17 (in key);
Gallé et al., 1998: 215;
Sanetra et al., 1999 PDF: 327;
Csosz & Markó, 2004 PDF: 51;
Bračko, 2006 PDF: 143;
Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 196;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 100 (in key);
Bračko, 2007 PDF: 19;
Werner & Wiezik, 2007 PDF: 151;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 144;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 497;
Csosz et al., 2011 PDF: 57;
Karaman, 2011b PDF: 59;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 22;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 552;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 28;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 203 (see note in bibliography);
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 17;
Borowiec et al., 2015 PDF: 42 (redescription);
Lebas et al., 2016: 392;
Salata & Borowiec, 2017 10.3161/00034541ANZ2017.67.2.008 PDF: 306 (in key);
Wagner et al., 2018 10.1038/s41598-018-30890-z PDF: 4 (in list).
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria Asia: Turkmenistan Europe: Croatia,
France,
Greece,
Italy,
Malta,
Romania,
Spain Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
1 locality in Coastal SLO
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 3 times found in maquis shrubland, 1 times found in Huerto cebollas, 1 times found in Lentas,muy agresivas, 2 times found in Campo de labranza, 1 times found in coastal shrub, 1 times found in Pinar/Dunas, 1 times found in Pinus halepensis, 1 times found in Huerto Naranjos, 1 times found in Prados, 1 times found in in house, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 4 times nbp, 3 times Nido bajo piedra, 3 times Nido, 2 times under stone, 1 times open (-30-0 cm), 1 times on the ground, 1 times on path, 1 times Forrajenado, 1 times foraging on the ground, 1 times Foraging, 1 times dry, stony digged hole, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 19 times Hand, 7 times search, 1 times Bait, 1 times pitfall.
Elevations: collected from 1 - 1750 meters, 351 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1822-12-31 00:00:00.0 and 2020-08-13 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Nontype: casent0745232, casent0745233; syntype of Tetramorium banyulense: casent0913612; syntype of Tetramorium caespitum tenuicornis: casent0917074, casent0917075, casent0917076; syntype of Tetramorium caespitum tenuicornis: casent0904813; syntype of Tetramorium semilaeve siciliense: casent0915055; type of Tetramorium banyulense: antweb1041301; Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve ernesti: casent0915043; Type of unavailable quadrinomial: Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve romana: casent0904821, casent0915044
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