Tetramorium kabulistanicum Pisarski 1967
Creators: name: Radchenko, A. G.
name: Scupola, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Tetramorium
Tetramorium kabulistanicum

description: <i>Tetramorium kabulistanicum</i> Pisarski, 1967 <i>Tetramorium striativentre</i> subsp. <i>kabulistanicum</i> Pisarski, 1967: 403, workers, &amp;female;, Ơ, Afghanistan (part., only material form Cheikhabad; see Taxonomic note, below); 1969: 319. <i>Tetramorium kabulistanicum</i>: Radchenko, 1992 a: 44, 1992 b: 53. M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Paratypes, 4 workers, 1 &amp;female;, 1 Ơ, “ Afghanistan, Cheikhabad, sud de Kaboul, route de Ghazni, A 473, 2050 m, 13.5.1958, leg. K. Lindberg ” (MIZ). Non-type material. 10 workers from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Measurements of workers (in mm; n = 10), ordered as: min-max [mean ± SD] (see also fig. 14, <i>a–d</i>): HL 0.77–0.85 [0.82 ± 0.036], HW 0.77–0.83 [0.79 ± 0.020], FW 0.32–0.34 [0.33 ± 0.007], FLW 0.34–0.36 [0.35 ± 0.007], OL 0.18–0.20 [0.19 ± 0.005], GnL 0.19–0.24 [0.21 ± 0.014], SL 0.58–0.66 [0.62 ± 0.027], ML 0.99–1.12 [1.06 ± 0.046], PNW 0.51–0.56 [0.53 ± 0.018], PL 0.34–0.36 [0.35 ± 0.009], PW 0.24–0.29 [0.26 ± 0.017], PH 0.25–0.33 [0.29 ± 0.026], PndL 0.20–0.24 [0.22 ± 0.013], PPL 0.20–0.23 [0.21 ± 0.011], PPW 0.26–0.35 [0.31 ± 0.030], PPH 0.253–0.33 [0.29 ± 0.028], ESL 0.11–0.14 [0.13 ± 0.027], ESD 0.20–0.25 [0.23 ± 0.015], HTL 0.58–0.63[0.60 ± 0.017], rug-frons 11–15 [13 ± 1.414]. Indices: CI 0.99–1.08 [1.03 ± 0.031], SI 1 0.73–0.78 [0.75 ± 0.018], SI 2 0.74–0.81 [0.78 ± 0.023], FI 0.40– 0.43 [0.42 ± 0.010], FLI 1.03–1.09 [1.07 ± 0.020], OI 1 0.22–0.26 [0.24 ± 0.011], OI 2 0.79–1.00 [0.91 ± 0.061], PI 1 1.09–1.36 [1.33 ± 0.084], PI 2 0.31–0.36 [0.33 ± 0.018], PndI 1.09–1.26 [1.19 ± 0.050], PPI 1 0.64–0.77 [0.69 ± 0.046], PPI 2 0.33–0.43 [0.40 ± 0.034], ESLI 0.14–0.18 [0.16 ± 0.014]. Measurements of queen (in mm) (fig. 15, <i>a–e</i>): HL 0.87, HW 0.90, FW 0.40, FLW 0.42, OL 0.285, GnL 0.19, SL 0.66, PL 0.45, PW 0.35, PH 0.41, PndL 0.17, PPL 0.31, PPW 0.47, PPH 0.04, ESL 0.15, ESD 0.39, HTL 0.66, ML 1.49, MH 0.76, SCL 1.03, SCW 0.81, rug-frons 17. Indices: CI 0.96, SI 1 0.76, SI 2 0.73, FI 0.43, FLI 1.08, OI 1 0.30, OI 2 1.47, PI 1 1.11, PI 2 0.39, PndI 2.13, PPI 1 0.65, PPI 2 0.52, ESLI 0.17, MI 1.96, SCI 1.27. Measurements of male (in mm) (figs 16, <i>a–e</i>): HL 0.65, HW 0.65, OL 0.29, GnL 0.06, SL 0.31, PL 0.45, PW 0.34, PH 0.30, PPL 0.31, PPW 0.44, PPH 0.35, HTL 0.88, ML 1.63, MH 0.91, SCL 1.24, SCW 0.90. Indices: CI 1.00, SI 1 0.47, SI 2 0.47, OI 1 0.440, OI 2 5.20, PI 1 1.48, PI 2 0.53, PPI 1 0.70, PPI 2 0.68, MI 1.78, SCI 1.38. Taxonomic notes. Pisarski (1967) described <i>T. striativentre</i> subsp. <i>kabulistanicum</i> based on the two nest samples from two different localities: 30 workers (including holotype), six gynes and one male from Cheikhabad (coll. No A 473), and three workers from Hassan Guilan (coll. No A 314). The specimens from the second locality belong to <i>T. pisarskii</i> sp. n., described above, and are excluded from the type series of <i>T. kabulistanicum</i> (see Taxonomic notes to the latter species). <i>T. kabulistanicum</i> well differs from <i>T. striativentre</i> first of all by the sculpture of the first gastral tergite: only its basal half is densely longitudinally striato-punctated, the remaining part of tergite is smooth and shiny or at most with fine superficial microreticulation, while in the latter species whole surface of the first gastral tergite is densely longitudinally striato-punctated. By the character of sculpture of the first gastral tergite <i>T. kabulistanicum</i> resembles <i>T. pisarskii</i>, but differs from it by the sculpture of mesosoma and waist, as well as by the sculpture on the head dorsum (see also Taxonomic notes to <i>T. pisarskii</i>, above). D i s t r i b u t i o n. Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. E c o l o g y unknown.
description: Published as part of <i>Radchenko, A. G. &amp; Scupola, A., 2015, Taxonomic Revision Of The Striativentre Species Group Of The Genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), pp. 219-244 in Vestnik Zoologii 49 (3)</i> on pages 237-240, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2015-0024, http://zenodo.org/record/6452367
description: {"references": ["Pisarski, B. Fourmis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) d'Afganistan recoltes par Dr. Lindberg // Annales Zoologici. - 1967. - 24, 6. - P. 375 - 425.", "Radchenko, A. G. Ants of the genus Tetramorium of the fauna of USSR. Communication 1 // Zoologichesky zhurnal. - 1992 a. - 71, is. 8. - P. 39 - 49. - Russian: \u0420adci\u043dko A. G. \u041cu\u0440av\u044ci \u0440oda Tetramorium \u0444au\u043d\u044b \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420. \u0421oob\u0449. 1.", "Radchenko, A. G. Ants of the genus Tetramorium of the fauna of USSR. Communication 2 // Zoologichesky zhurnal. - 1992 b. - 71, is. 8. - \u0420. 50 - 58. - Russian: \u0420adci\u043dko A. G. \u041cu\u0440av\u044ci \u0440oda Tetramorium \u0444au\u043d\u044b \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420. \u0421oob\u0449. 2."]}