Tetramorium feroxoide Dlussky & Zabelin 1985

• Main Authors: Csősz, Sándor, Schulz, Andreas
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Formicidae; Tetramorium; Tetramorium feroxoide; Juzhnyj; Vostochnyj
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6210307; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6210307

Tetramorium feroxoide Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985 Tetramorium feroxoides Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 230. Holotype gyne and paratype workers, gynes, males: Turkmenistan, Kopet dag 29.V. 1971 Ipaj-Kala (Dlussky) [label: Turkmenia Ipaj-, kala n. 71–117, Dlussky 29.v. 71] (1 w, 1 q paratype examined) [SIZK]. Tetramorium bursakovi Radchenko, 1992 a: 41. Holotype gyne and paratype workers, gynes, males: Kazakhstan, eastern slopes of Karatau, steppe, 13.VI. 1979 (S. Bursakov) [labels: N 48 13.VI. 1979, Juzhnyj Kazakhstan, Vostochnyj otrog Karatau, stepp, sobr. S.Bursakov] (2 w, 2 q, 2m paratypes examined) [SIZK]. New synonymy. Description of workers (figs 45–47). Medium to large size, CS 755 [683, 855]. Whole body and appendages usually black. Head slightly longer than broad, CL/CW 1.01 [0.99, 1.06], with feebly convex sides, straight posterior margin with widely rounded corners. Eyes large, EYE 0.17 [0.16, 0.20]. Frons wide, FR/CS 0.40 [0.38, 0.42], frontal lobes usually as wide as the frons, FL/FR 1.00 [1.00, 1.04]. Scape long, SL/CS 0.78 [0.75, 0.80], with a feeble dorso-basal carina. Promesonotal dorsum slightly convex, metanotal groove shallow, or completely absent. Propodeal denticles very short. Petiolar node moderately high, NOH/NOL 1.09 [0.76, 1.40] trapezoid in profile. Material and Methods. Upper line: arithmetic mean ± standard deviation, lower line, in []: minimum and maximum values, n = number of measured specimens. Head dorsum and posterior surface longitudinally rugulose, microreticulate, and sides ruguloso-reticulate, ground surface feebly microreticulate. Mesosoma dorsum longitudinally rugulose ground surface smooth. Dorsum of petiolar node semi-circularly rugulose, ground surface smooth, dorsum of postpetiole longitudinally rugulose and finely microreticulate. First gastral tergite smooth, appears shiny. Ventral surface of head with a row of short setae and long C-shape hairs arising just posteriorly to buccal cavity forming a psammophore. Description of gynes (figs 42–44). Medium size, CS 893 ...