New tramp ant species for Turkey: Tetramorium lanuginosum mayr (hymenoptera: formicidae)

Human activities such as tourism, developed transportation and increased trade lead to the introduction of faunal elements into non-native habitats and consequently affect native fauna. These introduced species are called as non-native, exotic, invasive or tramp species. Here we record the well-known tramp species Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr, for the first time from Turkey (Antalya-Alanya), and present first locality records for Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille) from AntalyaAlanya and Adana. Thus, the number of tramp ant species of Turkey is increased to 19.Turizm, gelişmiş ulaşım ve artan ticaret gibi insan faaliyetleri faunal elemanların dağılım alanları dışındaki habitatlara taşınmasına neden olmakta ve dolayısıyla yerli faunayı etkilemektedir. Bu faaliyetlerle taşınan organizmalar yerli olmayan, egzotik, istilacı veya tramp türler olarak adlandırılır. Bu çalışmada, çok iyi bilinen tramp karınca türü olan Tetramorium lanuginosum Mayr’u Türkiye’den (Antalya-Alanya) ilk defa kayıt edilmekte ve Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille)’e ait ilk lokalite kayıtları ise Antalya-Alanya ve Adana’dan verilmektedir. Böylece, Türkiye’de tramp karınca tür sayısı 19’a yükselmiştir

Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi’nden strumigenys smith, 1860 (hymenoptera, formicidae) cinsi için yeni kayıtlar

Strumigenys is one of the most speciose genera in the world. Although the genus is speciose, still they are recorded occasionally because of their small size, cryptic lifestyle and slow movements of its members which also stand still when disturbed. We report here two species of the genus, S. argiola and S. baudueri, from Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey, which, until now, were only recorded from İstanbul in the first half of the 20th century. Diagnostic characteristics, details of the localities, photographs of both species, and an identification key for Turkish Strumigenys species are given.Tüm Dünya’da en fazla tür içeren cinslerden biri olan Strumigenys cinsi çok tür ile temsil ediliyor olmasına rağmen, çok küçük vücutlu, yavaş hareketli olmaları, kriptik yaşam tarzları ve rahatsız edildiklerinde hareketsiz kalmaları nedeni ile çok nadiren kayıt edilirler. Bu çalışmada 20. yüzyılın ilk yarısında İstanbul’dan kayıt edilmiş, cinse ait iki tür, S. argiola ve S. baudueri, Türkiye’nin Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi’nden kayıt edilmiştir. Saptanan iki türe ait diagnostik karakterler, detaylı lokalite bilgileri ve fotoğraflar ile Türkiye’den bilinen Strumigenys türlerine ait tür tayin anahtarı verilmişti

First Record of the Inquiline Ant Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger, 1965 from Turkey

We report on the occurrence of the ant Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger, 1965 in two sites in Northern and Eastern Turkey. Leptothorax kutteri is a workerless inquiline living in the colonies of L. acervorum (Fabricius, 1793) so far known from various parts of Northern and Central Europe. Our findings greatly increase the range of this small and rare ant

Descriptions of Four New Species of Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Key for the Worker Caste of the Camponotus of Turkey

We reexamined the C. fedtschenkoi material collected in Eastern Anatolia and identified the material as similar to C. buddhae. Therefore, C. fedtschenkoi is a dubious record for Turkish ant fauna. An identification key for all known Turkish species of Camponotus is presented

First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Kiran, Kadrï, Karaman, Celal (2012): First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548: 1-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21098

First Record of the Inquiline Ant Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger, 1965 from Turkey

We report on the occurrence of the ant Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger, 1965 in two sites in Northern and Eastern Turkey. Leptothorax kutteri is a workerless inquiline living in the colonies of L. acervorum (Fabricius, 1793) so far known from various parts of Northern and Central Europe. Our findings greatly increase the range of this small and rare ant

A striking color variation is detected in Ponera testacea Emery, 1895 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) across its Western Palaearctic geographic range

In this paper, we provide numeric morphology-based evidence that the dark-colored Ponera coarctata var. lucida Emery, 1898, formerly considered a synonym of P. coarctata (Latreille, 1802), is conspecific with the lighter-colored Ponera testacea Emery, 1895. Species hypotheses are developed via NC-PART clustering, combined with Partitioning Algorithm based on Recursive Thresholding (PART), and via PCA combined with gap statistics. We obtained our results from an extensive dataset from the 10 continuous morphometric traits measured on 165 workers belonging to 73 nest samples. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) confirmed the grouping of hypotheses generated by exploratory analyses with 100% classification success when all ten morphometric traits were involved. The Anatolian Turkish black and the predominantly European yellow samples, did not separate based on their morphometric characteristics. These two color variations broadly overlap in their geographic range in Anatolian Turkey. The investigated type series of Ponera coarctata var. lucida Emery, 1898 (collected from Kazakhstan) fell within the P. testacea cluster instead of P. coarctata and is also classified with high certainty as P. testacea by confirmatory LDA. Therefore, we propose the synonymy of Ponera coarctata var. lucida Emery, 1898 with Ponera testacea Emery, 1895. As no other morphological differences than color patterns were detected between the “black” and “pale” P. testacea samples, we hold that these populations constitute geographically occurring color variations of the same species. Finally, our quantitative morphology-based results show that relying on color patterns is not a robust approach in identifying European Ponera samples, particularly in the east, but using multivariate analyses of morphometric traits is advised instead

Review of the Camponotus kiesenwetteri group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Aegean with the description of a new species

Volume: 899Start Page: 85-10

Review of the Camponotus kiesenwetteri group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Aegean with the description of a new species

Based on recently collected material, the Camponotus kiesenwetteri group is redefined, and its members known from the Aegean region are diagnosed. Camponotus schulzi sp. nov. is described from İzmir Province, Turkey. Camponotus nadimi Tohmé, 1969 syn. nov. is proposed as a junior synonym of Camponotus libanicus André, 1881 and Camponotus kiesenwetteri cyprius Emery, 1920 syn. nov. as a junior synonym of Camponotus kiesenwetteri (Roger, 1859). A key to workers of species of the C. kiesenwetteri group is provided. Niche modeling analyses are used to account for species habitat suitability across the Aegean region