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Formicini
Formicini is a tribe of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. Genera * '' Alloformica'' Dlussky, 1969 * '' Bajcaridris'' Agosti, 1994 * ''Cataglyphis'' Foerster, 1850 * †'' Cataglyphoides'' Dlussky, 2008 * †'' Conoformica'' Dlussky, 2008 * ''Formica'' Linnaeus, 1758 * '' Iberoformica'' Tinaut, 1990 * '' Polyergus'' Latreille, 1804 – Amazon ants * ''Proformica'' Ruzsky, 1902 * †'' Protoformica'' Dlussky, 1967 * ''Rossomyrmex ''Rossomyrmex'' is a genus of slave-making ant in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus consists of four species, each with a single host from the genus ''Proformica'', and has a very wide range of distribution from China to southeastern Spai ...'' Arnol'di, 1928 References Formicinae Ant tribes Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille {{formicinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proformica
''Proformica'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is known from the Palearctic realm, from Mongolia through Central Asia to Spain. Colonies are small, generally containing a few hundred individuals, with a single queen (monogyne) or multiple ergatogyne queens. Unique in the tribe Formicini, some species have specialized workers (" honeypot ants") gorged with food; they function as living storage containers. Parasite host Four species are host to obligate slave-making ants in the genus '' Rossomyrmex'', with each species forming a coevolving pair: *'' Rossomyrmex proformicarum''–'' Proformica epinotalis'' *'' Rossomyrmex quandratinodum''–''Proformica'' sp. *'' Rossomyrmex anatolicus''–'' Proformica korbi'' *'' Rossomyrmex minuchae''–'' Proformica longiseta'' Species *'' Proformica alaica'' Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926 *'' Proformica buddhaensis'' Ruzsky, 1915 *''Proformica caucasea'' (Santschi, 1925) *''Proformica coriacea'' Kuznetsov-Ugam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alloformica
''Alloformica'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus was first described as a subgenus of ''Proformica ''Proformica'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is known from the Palearctic realm, from Mongolia through Central Asia to Spain. Colonies are small, generally containing a few hundred individuals, with a single ...'' by Dlussky (1969), later to be synonymized under ''Proformica'' by Brown (1973), and finally revived and raised to genus rank by Dlussky & Fedoseeva (1988). Its species are known only from a few localities. Species * '' Alloformica aberrans'' (Mayr, 1877) * '' Alloformica flavicornis'' (Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926) * '' Alloformica nitidior'' (Forel, 1904) * '' Alloformica obscurior'' Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990 References External links * Formicinae Ant genera {{formicinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bajcaridris
''Bajcaridris'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. Its three species are known from northern Africa. ''B. theryi'' inhabits the meadows of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, and ''B. kraussii'' and ''B. menozzii'' inhabit the wadis of the northern Sahara in Algeria. Species * ''Bajcaridris kraussii'' (Forel, 1895) * ''Bajcaridris menozzii'' (Santschi, 1923) * ''Bajcaridris theryi ''Bajcaridris'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. Its three species are known from northern Africa. ''B. theryi'' inhabits the meadows of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, and ''B. kraussii'' and ''B. menozzii'' inhabit the wadi ...'' (Santschi, 1936) References External links * Formicinae Ant genera Hymenoptera of Africa {{formicinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iberoformica
''Iberoformica'' is a small genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. Taxonomy The genus was first described as a subgenus of ''Formica'' by Tinaut (1990), when he reclassified ''Formica subrufa'' as ''Iberoformica subrufa'', the type species of the new subgenus. Agosti (1994) synonymized the subgenus with ''Formica'', and the taxon was finally revived and elevated to genus rank by Muñoz-López ''et al''. (2012) based on molecular data. Species * ''Iberoformica subrufa ''Iberoformica subrufa'' is a species of ant that is one of the two species in the genus '' Iberoformica''. Described in 1859 by Roger, the species is mainly distributed to mainland Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally cons ...'' (Roger, 1859) References Formicinae Ant genera {{formicinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossomyrmex
''Rossomyrmex'' is a genus of slave-making ant in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus consists of four species, each with a single host from the genus ''Proformica'', and has a very wide range of distribution from China to southeastern Spain, from huge extended plains to the top of high mountains. Species * '' Rossomyrmex anatolicus'' Tinaut, 2007 – Turkey * '' Rossomyrmex minuchae'' Tinaut, 1981 – Spain * '' Rossomyrmex proformicarum'' Arnol'di, 1928 – Caucasus and Volga plains, Russia * '' Rossomyrmex quandratinodum'' Xia & Zheng, 1995 – Kazakhstan and China Distribution The Asian parasite-host pairs live mostly in extended plains whereas the Spanish pair ''R. minuchae''–''P. longiseta'' inhabits the top of three high mountains in southern Spain. Despite this apparent difference in habitat (extended plains versus high mountains), the abiotic conditions are quite similar and are consistent with a typical arid steppe. However, the main differe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formicinae
The Formicinae are a subfamily within the Formicidae containing ants of moderate evolutionary development. Formicines retain some primitive features, such as the presence of cocoons around pupae, the presence of ocelli in workers, and little tendency toward reduction of palp or antennal segmentation in most species, except subterranean groups. Extreme modification of mandibles is rare, except in the genera '' Myrmoteras'' and '' Polyergus''. However, some members show considerable evolutionary advancement in behaviors such as slave-making and symbiosis with root-feeding hemipterans. Finally, all formicines have very reduced stings and enlarged venom reservoirs, with the venom gland, specialized (uniquely among ants) for the production of formic acid. All members of the Formicinae "have a one-segmented petiole in the form of a vertical scale". Identification Formicine ants have a single node-like or scale-like petiole (postpetiole entirely lacking) and the apex of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formica Rufa
''Formica rufa'', also known as the red wood ant, southern wood ant, or horse ant, is a boreal member of the ''Formica rufa'' group of ants, and is the type species for that group, being described already by Linneaus in the first version of Systema Naturae from 1758. It is native to Eurasia, with a recorded distribution stretching from the middle of Scandinavia to the northern Iberia and Anatolia, and from Great Britain to Lake Baikal, with unconfirmed reportings of it also to the Russian Far East. There are claims that it can be found in North America, but this is not confirmed in specialised litterature, and no recent publication where North American wood ants are listed mentions it as present, while records from North America are all listed as dubious or unconfirmed in a record compilation. Workers head and thorax are colored red and the abdomen brownish-black, usually with a dorsal dark patches on the head and promensonotum, although some individuals may be more uniform red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyergus
''Polyergus'' is a small genus of ants with 14 described species. They are also referred to by the names "Slave-raiding ants" or "Amazon ants". They are characterized by their habit of raiding nests (of Formica) for workers. Reproduction ''Polyergus'' workers are incapable of caring for brood, for the most part due to their dagger-like, piercing mandibles. As such, they have evolved to rely on certain species of ants in the genus ''Formica''. They have lost the instinct for carrying out even rudimentary brood care, and even for feeding themselves (which they are unable to do). ''Polyergus'' 'workers' exist more as a force of improvised soldiers, acting in essence solely to raid the ''Formica'' nests. The captured ants are generally referred to as "slaves" in scientific and popular literature, though recent attempts have been made to apply other human cultural models. Some of these describe the ''Polyergus'' as "raiders", "pirates", or "kidnappers". They also describe the ''Form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cataglyphis
''Cataglyphis'' is a genus of ant, desert ants, in the subfamily Formicinae. Its most famous species is ''C. bicolor'', the Sahara Desert ant, which runs on hot sand to find insects that died of heat exhaustion, and can, like other several other ''Cataglyphis'' species, sustain body temperatures up to 50°C. Cataglyphis is also the name of an autonomous rover that won the NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge inspired by the navigation approaches used by desert ants. Name It was named in 1850, with reference to the impressions of its abdomen: "Von χατά und γλυψίς der Einschnitt. Eine Andeutung auf die vielen Einschnitte oder vielmehr Eindrücke de Hinterleibs." Description Species of this genus are behaviourally, morphologically, and physiologically adapted to dry and hot habitats. Navigational behaviour In the Sahara, ants live where no bushes or clumps of grass are available to protect them, and where tracks are covered by wind-blown sand in seconds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
