Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Subspecies of
Temnothorax tuberum:
Forel, 1874 PDF: 84 (in key);
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 459;
André, 1883a: 300;
Emery, 1884: 379;
Forel, 1889 PDF: 257;
Forel, 1890b PDF: lxxv;
Emery, 1891c: 6;
Forel, 1892j PDF: 314;
Emery, 1893m PDF: 127 (footnote);
Saunders, 1896 PDF: 38;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 597;
Bondroit, 1910 PDF: 496;
Santschi, 1910e PDF: 649;
Crawley, 1914a PDF: 91 (in key);
Emery, 1914c PDF: 157;
Escherich, 1917: 328 (in key);
Soudek, 1922b PDF: 51;
Kutter, 1927a PDF: 100;
Gösswald, 1932 PDF: 91.
Status as species:
Schenck, 1852 PDF: 135;
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 447 (redescription);
Smith, 1858b PDF: 280;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 120;
Mayr, 1861 PDF: 59 (in key);
Roger, 1863b PDF: 26;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 427;
Emery, 1869b PDF: 15;
Smith, 1871c: 3;
André, 1874b: 190 (in key);
Emery, 1878: 50;
Emery, 1880 PDF: 392;
Saunders, 1880 PDF: 219;
White, 1884 PDF: 265;
Nasonov, 1889: 32;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 125;
Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 23;
Bondroit, 1911a PDF: 12;
Forel, 1911f PDF: 334;
Stitz, 1914 PDF: 64;
Forel, 1915d: 22 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 155;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 175;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 122;
Menozzi, 1922c PDF: 329;
Kulmatycki, 1922 PDF: 76;
Müller, 1923b PDF: 94;
Emery, 1924f PDF: 255;
Ruzsky, 1925b PDF: 45;
Betrem, 1926 PDF: 217;
Donisthorpe, 1926a PDF: 8;
Karavaiev, 1926f PDF: 69;
Stärcke, 1926a PDF: 93 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 173;
Karavaiev, 1927a PDF: 292;
Karavaiev, 1927d: 266 (in key);
Menozzi, 1927b PDF: 91;
Lomnicki, 1928 PDF: 5;
Finzi, 1930d PDF: 315;
Soudek, 1931 PDF: 9;
Arnol'di, 1933a: 598 (in key);
Finzi, 1933 PDF: 164;
Karavaiev, 1934: 137 (redescription);
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 101;
Stitz, 1939: 179; Novák, in
Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 90 (in key);
Novák, 1944c PDF: 116;
Van Boven, 1947b PDF: 178 (in key);
Arnol'di, 1948a PDF: 211 (in list);
Schmitz, 1950 PDF: 15;
Consani & Zangheri, 1952 PDF: 41;
Bernard, 1956a PDF: 164;
Ceballos, 1956: 306;
Cagniant, 1966b PDF: 279;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 214 (redescription);
Kutter, 1968b PDF: 60;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 69;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 118;
Collingwood, 1971 PDF: 161;
Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 234;
Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 5 (in key);
Pisarski, 1975: 21;
Van Boven, 1977 PDF: 102;
Kutter, 1977c: 133;
Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 541 (in key);
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 84 (in key);
Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 74;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 55;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 274 (in key);
Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990c PDF: 418 (in key);
Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 139;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 56;
Radchenko, 1994e PDF: 153 (in key);
Bolton, 1995b: 242;
Douwes, 1995: 90;
Poldi et al., 1995: 5;
Radchenko, 1995h PDF: 3;
Seifert, 1995 PDF: 4;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 30;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 16 (in key);
Gallé et al., 1998: 215;
Radchenko, 2000: 43;
Czechowski et al., 2002 PDF: 48;
Bolton, 2003 PDF: 271;
Karaman & Karaman, 2003 PDF: 42;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 97 (in key);
Seifert, 2007: 237;
Werner & Wiezik, 2007 PDF: 149;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 143;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 495;
Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 23;
Boer, 2010: 52;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 19;
Czechowski et al., 2012: 146;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 26;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 185 (see note in bibliography);
Csosz et al., 2015 10.1371/journal.pone.0140000 PDF: 40 (redescription);
Lebas et al., 2016: 366;
Steiner et al., 2017: 18;
Seifert, 2018: 215.
Senior synonym of
Temnothorax cingulata:
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 447;
Nylander, 1856b PDF: 93;
Smith, 1858b PDF: 280;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 120;
Mayr, 1861 PDF: 59 (in key);
Roger, 1863b PDF: 26;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 427;
Smith, 1871c: 3;
André, 1874c: 203 (in list);
Forel, 1874 PDF: 102 (in list);
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 459;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 125;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 597;
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 155;
Forel, 1915d: 22 (in key);
Emery, 1924f PDF: 255;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 173;
Karavaiev, 1934: 137;
Ceballos, 1956: 306;
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 70;
Bolton, 1995b: 242;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 495.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Asia: Armenia,
Georgia Europe: Andorra,
Austria,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Denmark,
France,
Germany,
Italy,
Jersey,
Macedonia,
Montenegro,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Poland,
Portugal,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Ukraine,
United Kingdom Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
Middle, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, former USSR
Biology:
dry, stony habitats, nesting under barks of trees
Notes:
(Dutch vernacular name: bosslankmier)
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 300 times found in Forest, 225 times found in Unknown, 40 times found in shrubs, 32 times found in Anthropogenic, 30 times found in heathlands, 22 times found in Rocks (rocky-calcareous grasslands), 17 times found in dry grassland, 16 times found in Wet grassland, 4 times found in deciduous forest, 3 times found in Eucaliptos,mimosas, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 5 times on leaves, 5 times leaf litter, 4 times on the ground, 1 times in pine stump, 2 times in branch on the ground, 2 times Forrajeando, 1 times under loose bark dead wood, 2 times on rock, 1 times Nido, 1 times Nest under driedmud at stone stairs, 1 times in twig on ground, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 289 times Pitfall trap, 129 times Manual catch, 71 times sifting of soil samples, 35 times search, 11 times Hand, 14 times Malaise trap, 6 times beating, 6 times White color trap, 4 times insect net, 4 times Pitfall, 1 times hand collecting, ...
Elevations: collected from 8 - 1570 meters, 418 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1905-07-01 00:00:00.0 and 2022-03-28 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: syntype of Leptothorax tuberum nylanderocorticalis: casent0909023
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
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