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Genus: Temnothorax   Mayr, 1861 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 393 species, 41 subspecies

Fossil: 7 species

Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 PDF: 68. Type-species: Myrmica recedens, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Temnothorax in Myrmicidae, Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.
Temnothorax in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 68 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 21 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 459 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 122.
Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Forel, 1917 PDF: 245; Emery, 1924f: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731.
Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105.
Temnothorax as subgenus of Leptothorax: Forel, 1892j PDF: 315; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 122; Ruzsky, 1905b: 607; Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Emery, 1915e PDF: 24; Forel, 1915d: 27; Emery, 1916a PDF: 176; Forel, 1917 PDF: 245; Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 117; Wheeler, 1922: 679; Emery, 1924f: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731.
Temnothorax as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Forel, 1890b PDF: lxxii; Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 96; Brown, 1973b PDF: 185 [provisional]; Bolton, 1982 PDF: 319; Bolton, 1994: 105.
Temnothorax as genus: Bernard, 1967a PDF: 185; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 543; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Atanasov & Dlussky, 1992: 125; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 270.
Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2015 PDF: 17.
Genus Temnothorax references
See under Leptothorax for pre-2003 references. Bolton, 2003 PDF: 270 (genus diagnosis). Radchenko, 2004 PDF: 131 (Eastern Palaearctic species key); Radchenko, 2005B PDF: 193 (North Korea species key); Seifert, 2007: 120 (North and Central Europe species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 181 (Taiwan species key); Zhou, et al. 2010: 9 (China species key) ; Czechowski, Radchenko, et al. 2012: 366 (Poland species key); Bharti, Gul & Schulz, 2012: 334 (India species key); Snelling, Borowiec & Prebus, 2014 PDF: 80 (California species key);Salata & Borowiec, 2015 PDF: 129 (eastern Mediterranean species key); Bharti, Gul & Sasi, 2016 10.13102/sociobioloby.v63i2.869 PDF: 748 (Indian species key); Csosz, Heinze, Mikó & I, 2015 10.1371/journal.pone.0140000 PDF: 1 (nylanderi-group key, taxonomic synopsis); Galkowski & Lebas, 2016 PDF: 80 (black species key); Sharaf, Akbar, Al Dhafer, Gharbawy & Aldawood, 2017 10.5852/ejt.2017.280 PDF: 1 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Radchenko, Yusupov & Fedoseeva, 2015 PDF 161 (Caucasian species).

Taxon Page Images:



Cracking open an acorn reveals a colony of Temnothorax curvispinosus acorn ants. This species will also nest in walnut shells, twigs, plant galls, and other small pre-formed cavities. Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Indomalaya, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Cameroon, Eastern Africa, Kakamega, Kenya, Laikipia, Middle Africa, Northern, Sudan, Tana River
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Goa, India, Madhya Pradesh, Nepal, Okinawa, Pakistan, Southern Asia, Taiwan, Uttarakhand, Vietnam
Nearctic Region: Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, Baja California, Baja California Sur, British Columbia, California, Canada, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hidalgo, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North America, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Nuevo León, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puebla, Sonora, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Neotropical Region: Americas, Atlántida, Bahamas, Baja Verapaz, Belize, Camagüey, Caribbean, Cayo, Central America, Chiapas, Colombia, Comayagua, Cortés, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Progreso, Exuma, Francisco Morazán, Guanacaste, Guantánamo, Guatemala, Guerrero, Haiti, Heredia, Holguín, Honduras, Huehuetenango, Independencia, Isla de la Juventud, Izabal, Jalapa, Jinotega, La Vega, Magdalena, Matagalpa, Matanzas, Mexico, Michoacán de Ocampo, Monseñor Nouel, Morelos, Nicaragua, Nueva Segovia, Oaxaca, Olancho, Ouest, Panama, Pedernales, Pinar del Río, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Sacatepéquez, San José, San Marcos, Santiago de Cuba, South America, Suchitepéquez, Totonicapán, United States Virgin Islands, Venezuela, Veracruz, Zacapa
Palearctic Region: Aargau, Abruzzo, Afghanistan, Al Bahah, Albania, Algeria, Amasya, Anatolikí Makedonía kai Thráki, Andalusia, Andorra, Antalya, Aragon, Armenia, Artvin, Asir, Austria, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Azerbaijan, Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands, Basilicata, Belarus, Belgium, Blagoevgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Brussels Capital, Bulgaria, Calabria, Campania, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Carinthia, Castile-Leon, Catalonia, Central Asia, Channel Islands, China, Corsica, Crete, Crimea, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dolnośląskie, Drâa-Tafilalet, Dytikí Elláda, Dytikí Makedonía, East Flanders, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Emilia-Romagna, Erzincan, Estonia, Europe, Finland, Flemish Brabant, France, Fukuoka, Fès-Meknès, Geneva, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hainaut, Hatay, Himachal Pradesh, Hokkaido, Hungary, Hyōgo, Ionía Nísia, Iran, Israel, Issyk-Kul, Italy, Jammu and Kashmir, Japan, Jersey, Kabardino-Balkariya, Kagoshima, Kairouan, Kaliningrad, Kanagawa, Kayseri, Kazakhstan, Kentrikí Makedonía, Konya, Kumamoto, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lazio, Libya, Liechtenstein, Liguria, Limburg, Lithuania, Lombardia, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madeira, Madrid, Malta, Mersin, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Murcia, Māzandarān, Namur, Netherlands, North Korea, Northern Africa, Northern Europe, Norway, Notío Aigaío, Occitanie, Okayama, Pafos, Peloponnísos, Piemonte, Poland, Portugal, Praha, Rheinland-Pfalz, Rize, Romania, Russia, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sicilia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sofia, South Korea, Southern Europe, Spain, Stereá Elláda, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma, Thessalía, Tlemcen, Toscana, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruzgān, Uzbekistan, Valais, Valencia, Van, Vidin, Voreío Aigaío, Västra Götaland, Walloon Brabant, West Flanders, Western Asia, Western Europe, Yemen, Ípeiros, İzmir

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Temnothorax   Eguchi, K., Viet, B. T. & Yamane, S., 2011, Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part I - Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmicinae., Zootaxa 2878, pp. 1-61: 29-30, (download) 29-30 23462
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Leptothorax   Forel, A., 1890, Fourmis de Tunisie et de l'Algérie orientale., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Comptes-rendus des Seances 34, pp. 61-76: 72, (download) 72 3926
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 15, (download) 15 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 37, (download) 37 21008
Leptothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 13, (download) 13 21008
Temnothorax   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008


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