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NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 7 (1): pp.55-62 ©NwjZ, Oradea, Romania, 2011 Article No.: 111104 www.herp-or.uv.ro/nwjz The myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Hungary: an updated checklist Sándor CSŐSZ1,*, Bálint MARKÓ2 & László GALLÉ3 1. Hymenoptera Collection, Hungarian Natural History Museum, str. Baross 13, 1088 Budapest, Hungary, E-mail: [email protected] 2. Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Babeş-Bolyai University, str. Clinicilor 5-7, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, E-mail: [email protected] 3. Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, P.O. Box 51, 6701 Szeged, Hungary, E-mail: [email protected] * Corresponding author, S. Csősz, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 22. July 2010 / Accepted: 18. January 2011 / Available online: 25. January 2011 Abstract. The last checklist of Hungarian myrmecofauna was published at the end of the 1990s. Since then, several taxonomic and faunistic changes have occurred. The following article provides an updated checklist of Hungarian ants containing 126 species, five of which are found exclusively indoors. Six new species of the Hungarian myrmecofauna are reported (Temnothorax albipennis, T. jailensis, Tetramorium sp. D, Tapinoma melanocephalum, Plagiolepis pallescens, and P. ampeloni), and a few species are deleted from the list. Finally, we offer a brief descriptive comparison of the Hungarian myrmecofauna with the ant fauna of the surrounding countries. Keywords: ants, faunistics, checklist, Hungary, Europe. Introduction the 20th century (e.g. Gallé 1969, 1972, 1979, Gallé & Szőnyi 1988, Csősz & Tartally 1998). The myrmecofauna of central and eastern Europe However, since publication of the most recent is relatively well-known. Over the course of the Hungarian checklist, many new taxa have been past few decades several old checklists and described (e.g. Seifert 2003, Schlick-Steiner et al. faunistic monographs have been updated and new 2006, Csősz et al. 2007, Csősz & Schulz 2010), ones have been published for central and eastern revived from synonymy (e.g. Csősz & Seifert 2003, Europe countries (e.g. Radchenko 1991, Seifert Radchenko & Elmes 2009), or the validity of their 2001, Czechowski et al. 2002, Steiner et al. 2002, status has been confirmed on the basis of new Karaman 2004, Radchenko et al. 2004, Bračko 2006, findings (Csősz & Markó 2004). Furthermore, 2007, Petrov 2006, Werner & Wiezik 2007, several new myrmecological studies have been Karaman 2009, Lapeva-Gjonova et al. 2010). The carried out reporting new ant species for the last checklist of Hungarian ants was compiled in Hungarian fauna and new data regarding species the late 1990s and reported 101 species (Gallé et al. already known (e.g. Csősz 2000, 2001, 2003, Csősz 1998). et al. 2002, Markó & Csősz 2002, , Tartally & Csősz The myrmecofauna of present-day Hungary 2004, Csősz & Markó 2005, Gallé et al. 2005, Csősz has been studied in considerable detail over the et al. 2007, Ionescu-Hirsch et al. 2009, Csősz & course of the last few centuries, and several Schulz 2010). Consequently, there is need of an checklists have been published since the mid updated checklist of the Hungarian myrmeco- 1800’s. The first detailed checklist containing fauna such as the one presented here. locations was published by Mayr (1856). He listed 40 species for the territory of present-day Hungary. His work was later updated toward the Materials and methods end of the 19th century (Mocsáry 1897) resulting in a checklist that contained 56 species for the The current species list was prepared by consulting major myrmecofaunistic papers for the territory of current territory of present-day Hungary. His work was Hungary, as well as other papers handling Hungarian followed by Somfai’s (1959) monograph that listed data. The list of names was based on the catalogue by 66 species. Thus, the number of species increased Bolton et al. (2006), as well as on the basis of currently considerably in the last checklist of Hungarian available taxonomic literature (e.g. Czechowski et al. ants (Gallé et al. 1998), due mostly to intensive 2002, Seifert 2007, Radchenko & Elmes 2009). In some myrmecological work during the second half of cases the Antbase search engine (Agosti & Johnson 2005) 56 Csősz, S. et al. was also used. Most species were collected in recent Myrmica deplanata Ruzsky, 1905: Somfai (1959) decades, but some records could not be verified by Myrmica gallienii Bondroit, 1920: Csősz & Tartally checking voucher specimens or by collecting from sample (1998) sites. Among respective species, those not recorded from Myrmica karavajevi (Arnoldi, 1930) surrounding countries or those with unclear taxonomic status at the time of publication were considered of = Sifolinia karavajevi: Gallé et al. (1998) uncertain occurrence in Hungary. = Sifolinia faniensis (van Boven, 1970): Gallé (1979) Myrmica lobicornis Nylander, 1846: Mocsáry (1897) List of species Myrmica lonae Finzi, 1926: Tartally & Csősz (2004) Myrmica rubra (Linnaeus, 1758): Csősz & Tartally A total of 125 species were recorded from Hun- (1998) gary, including six new species: Temnothorax albi- = Myrmica laevinodis Nylander, 1846: Mayr pennis, T. jailensis, Tetramorium sp. D, Tapinoma (1856) melanocephalum, Plagiolepis pallescens, and P. = Myrmica microrubra Seifert, 1993: Csősz et al. ampeloni. Five species of exotic origin were record- (2002) ed exclusively from indoors: Hypoponera puncta- Myrmica ruginodis Nylander, 1846: Mayr (1855) tissima, Monomorium pharaonis, Tetramorium bicari- Myrmica rugulosa Nylander, 1849: Mocsáry (1897) natum, T. insolens, and Tapinoma melanocephalum. Myrmica sabuleti Meinert, 1861: Somfai (1959) Four species were considered of uncertain occur- Myrmica scabrinodis Nylander, 1846: Mayr (1855) rence: Myrmica sulcinodis, Camponotus sylvaticus, = Myrmica rugulosoides Forel, 1915: Gallé (1967) Formica aquilonia, and F. lugubris, and were Myrmica schencki Viereck, 1903: Gallé (1986a) excluded from the list of Hungarian myrmeco- Myrmica slovaca Sadil, 1952 - M. slovaca has been fauna. generally misidentified as M. salina in central Europe, while M. salina occurs closest in Subfamily Proceratiinae Kazakhstan (Radchenko & Elmes 2009). Proceratiini = Myrmica salina Ruzsky, 1905: Csősz & Proceratium melinum (Roger, 1860) Tartally (1998) = Sysphincta fialai Kratochvil, 1944: Somfai (1959) Myrmica specioides Bondroit, 1918: Gallé (1975) = Myrmica sancta Karavaiev, 1926: Gallé Subfamily Ponerinae (1972b) Ponerini Myrmica vandeli Bondroit, 1920: Tartally & Csősz Cryptopone ochracea (Mayr, 1855) (2004) = Cryptopone ochraceum: Csősz (2003) Myrmecinini Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger, 1859): Gallé et al. Myrmecina graminicola (Latreille, 1802): Somfai (1998) (1959) = Ponera punctatissima: Somfai (1959) = Myrmecina latreillei Curtis, 1829: Mayr (1856) Ponera coarctata (Latreille, 1802): Mayr (1856) Ponera testacea Emery, 1895: Csősz & Seifert (2003) Pheidolini Aphaenogaster subterranea (Latreille, 1798): Mocsáry Subfamily Myrmicinae (1897) Dacetini Messor structor (Latreille, 1798): Somfai (1959) Pyramica argiola (Emery, 1869) = Atta structor: Mayr (1855) = Epitritus argiolus: Mocsáry (1897) = Aphaenogaster structor: Mocsáry (1897) Pyramica baudueri (Emery, 1875) = Messor rufitarsus (Fabricius 1804): Gallé = Strumigenys baudueri: Somfai (1959) (1986b) = Smithistruma baudueri: Gallé et al. (1998) Stenammini Myrmicini Stenamma debile (Foerster, 1850): Csősz (2000) Manica rubida (Latreille, 1802): Gallé et al. (1998) = Stenamma westwoodii Westwood, 1839: = Myrmica rubida: Mayr 1855 Somfai (1959) = Myrmica (Neomyrma) rubida: Somfai (1959) Crematogastrini Myrmica constricta Karavajev, 1934 Crematogaster schmidti (Mayr, 1853): Gallé et al. = Myrmica hellenica Finzi, 1926: Gallé et al. (1998) (2005) The myrmecofauna of Hungary 57 Crematogaster scutellaris (Olivier, 1792): Mayr Temnothorax rabaudi (Bondroit, 1918) (1861) = Leptothorax rabaudi Bondroit, 1918: Barrett Crematogaster sordidula (Nylander, 1849): Mayr (1970) (1861) Temnothorax sordidulus (Müller, 1923) = Leptothorax sordidulus: Csősz (2001) Solenopsidini Temnothorax tuberum (Fabricius, 1775) Monomorium pharaonis (Linnaeus, 1758): Somfai = Leptothorax tuberum: Mayr 1855: Mayr (1861) (1959) Temnothorax unifasciatus (Latreille, 1798) Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798): Mayr (1856) = Leptothorax unifasciatus: Mayr (1856) Formicoxenini = Leptothorax tuberum var. unifasciatus: André Formicoxenus nitidulus (Nylander, 1846): Somfai 1881: Somfai (1959) (1959) Tetramoriini Harpagoxenus sublaevis (Nylander, 1849): Somfai Anergates atratulus (Schenck, 1952): Mocsáry (1897) (1959) = Tetramorium atratulum: Mayr (1856) Myrmoxenus ravouxi (André, 1896) Strongylognathus testaceus (Schenck, 1952): Mayr = Epimyrma goesswaldi Menozzi, 1930: Gallé & (1856) Szőnyi (1988) Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander, 1846): = Epimyrma ravouxi: Csősz & Tartally (1998) Mocsáry (1897) Cardiocondyla elegans Emery, 1869 Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758): Mayr = Cardiocondyla sahlbergi Forel, 1913: Gallé et (1855) al. (1998) [erroneous determination] Tetramorium ferox Ruzsky, 1903: Radchenko (1977) Leptothorax acervorum (Fabricius, 1783): Somfai Tetramorium hungaricum Röszler, 1935 (1959) = Tetramorium caespitum hungaricum Röszler, Leptothorax gredleri Mayr, 1855: Somfai (1959) 1935: 78. Röszler (1935) Leptothorax muscorum (Nylander, 1846): Somfai = Tetramorium hungaricum: Röszler (1951) (1959) Tetramorium impurum (Förster, 1850): Csősz et al. Temnothorax affinis (Mayr, 1855) (2002) = Leptothorax affinis Mayr, 1855: Somfai (1959) Tetramorium
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    ettudom sz án é y m ológia i r n i é e h K c a s T e r T Myrmecophily of Maculinea butterflies in the Carpathian Basin (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) A Maculinea boglárkalepkék mirmekofíliája a Kárpát- medencében (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) PhD Thesis Tartally András Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology University of Debrecen Debrecen, 2008. Ezen értekezést a Debreceni Egyetem TTK Biológia Tudományok Doktori Iskola Biodiverzitás programja keretében készítettem a Debreceni Egyetem TTK doktori (PhD) fokozatának elnyerése céljából. Debrecen, 2008.01.07. Tartally András Tanúsítom, hogy Tartally András doktorjelölt 2001-2005 között a fent megnevezett Doktori Iskola Biodiverzitás programjának keretében irányításommal végezte munkáját. Az értekezésben foglalt eredményekhez a jelölt önálló alkotó tevékenységével meghatározóan hozzájárult. Az értekezés elfogadását javaslom. Debrecen, 2008.01.07. Dr. Varga Zoltán egyetemi tanár In memory of my grandparents Table of contents 1. Introduction......................................................................................... 9 1.1. Myrmecophily of Maculinea butterflies........................................................ 9 1.2. Why is it important to know the local host ant species?.............................. 9 1.3. The aim of this study.................................................................................... 10 2. Materials and Methods..................................................................... 11 2.1. Taxonomy and nomenclature.....................................................................
  • Individual, Geographical and Experimental Variation of Cuticular

    Individual, Geographical and Experimental Variation of Cuticular

    Biochemical Systematics and Ecology,VoL 18, No. 1, pp. 63-73, 1990. 0305-1978/90 $3.00+0.00 Printed in GreatBritain. © 1990 Pergamon Press plc. Individual, Geographical and Experimental Variation of Cuticular Hydrocarbons of the Ant Cataglyphis cursor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" Their Use in Nest and Subspecies Recognition E. NOWBAHARI,* A. LENOIR,t J. L. CLI~MENT,:~ C. LANGE,§ A. G. BAGNERES$ and C. JOULIE$ *Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Psychophysiologie, Universit@ F. Rabelais, Parc de Grandmont, F-37200 Tours, France; lLaboratoire d'Ethologie et Sociobiologie, URA CNRS 661. Universit@ Paris Nord, Av. J. B. Cl@ment, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France; :~Laboratoire d'Evolution, Universit~ P. et M. Curie, 105 Bd Raspail, F-75006 Paris, France; §Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Structurale, UA CNRS 455. Universit@ P. et M. Curie, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France Key Word Index--Cataglyphis cursor; Hymenoptera; Formicidae; cuticle; hydrocarbons; colonial; odor; populations; aggressive behavior. Abstract--The cuticular hydrocarbons of Cataglyphis cursor (Fonsc.) adults have been identified and quantified. Comparison of the proportion of hydrocarbons in various locations shows a variation between populations from each side of the Rh6ne river and an isolated population in the mountains near Madrid. In the studied area (not including Italy and eastern places) at least three subspecies have been found. Ethological analyses show that colony recognition, as indicated by aggressive behavior and the possibilities of adoption in an alien society, is correlated with the composition of cuticular hydrocarbons. Callows can be adopted in an alien colony, they can live in two colonies where the adults do not tolerate each other.
  • Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    ANNALS OF THE UPPER SILESIAN MUSEUM IN BYTOM ENTOMOLOGY Vol. 27 (online 008): 1–51 ISSN 0867-1966, eISSN 2544-039X (online) Bytom, 11.12.2018 SEBASTIAN SALATA1 , LECH BOROWIEC2 Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2199191 1 Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bukowska 19, 60-809 Poznań, Poland 2 Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland e-mail: 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected] Abstract: Cataglyphis cretica (FOREL, 1910) is raised to species rank and redescribed. The following synonymies are proposed: Lepisiota nigra (DALLA TORRE, 1893) = Lepisiota splendens KARAVAIEV, 1912 syn. nov.; Camponotus boghossiani FOREL, 1911 = Camponotus boghossiani stenoticus EMERY, 1915 syn. nov.; Camponotus oertzeni FOREL, 1889 = Camponotus andrius DALLA TORRE, 1893 syn. nov., = Campnotus oertzeni kappariensis DALLA TORRE, 1893 syn. nov. Gynes of Aphaenogaster aktaci KIRAN & TEZCAN, 2008, Temnothorax angustifrons Csősz, Heinze & Mikó, 2015, Temnothorax dessyi (MENOZZI, 1936), Temnothorax kemali (SANTSCHI, 1934), Temnothorax smyrnensis (FOREL, 1911) and Temnothorax solerii (MENOZZI, 1936) are described for the first time. Aphaenogaster aktaci KIRAN & TEZCAN, 2008 and Temnothorax kemali (SANTSCHI, 1934) are new to Europe and Greece. New records for 10 species and an updated checklist of 315 species or morphospecies occurring in Greece is given. Key words: redescription, new status, species new to Europe, species new to Greece, ants, Greece. INTRODUCTION Ant fauna of Greece has been intensively studied in recent years. The first impulse for studies on Greek ant fauna was the publication of a checklist by LEGAKIS (2011).