Temnothorax kaszabi (PISARSKI, 1969)

Radchenko, A., 2004, A Review Of The Ant Genera Leptothorax Mayr And Temnothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Of The Eastern Palaearctic, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 50 (2), pp. 109-137 : 124

Temnothorax kaszabi (PISARSKI, 1969)

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Leptothorax kaszabi PISARSKI, 1969 b: 301 , workers, queens, Mongolia, Central Aimak, SE from Somon Bajanzogt; RADCHENKO, 1994 b: 157, 1995 b: 19 (males); BOLTON, 1995: 240.

Leptothorax tuberum sachalinensis KUPYANSKAYA, 1990: 142 , workers, queen, Russia, Sakhalin Isl., synonymy by: RADCHENKO, 1995 b: 19.

Leptothorax rabaudi BONDROIT : COLLINGWOOD, 1976: 304; TERAYAMA et al., 1992: 28; KIM, 1996: 177; 2003: 2, nec BONDROIT, 1918 et auct. (misidentification).

Temnothorax kaszabi : BOLTON, 2003: 271.

Material examined: paratypes of L. kaszabi : 11 workers, Mongolia , Central aimak, SE from Somon Bajanzogt, 1600 m a.s.l., 27.vii.1966, No. 749, leg. Z. KASZAB (nest of holotype); same locality , 11.vi.1966, No. 519, leg. Z. KASZAB ( MIZ, ZMMU); holotype and paratypes of L. tuberum sachalinensis : 10 workers and 1 queen, Isl. Sakhalin , Starodubskoe , 1.viii.1978, leg. A. KUPYANSKAYA ( BPI); non-type material: several dozen of workers, 5 queens, 4 males of L. kaszabi from Mongolia , Tuva, Chita Region and North Korea .

Distribution. Mongolia, south-eastern Altai, Tuva, southern Yakutia, Russian Far East, North Korea.

Ecology. It inhabits mainly steppes, dry meadows; rarely it lives in lighted, open forests; nests are built in soil.

Notes. T. kaszabi is similar to the Euro-Siberian T. tuberum ( FABRICIUS, 1775) and differs from it by the colour of the first gastral tergite (see also RADCHENKO 1994 b). The differences between this species and T. michali are given in the Notes under the latter species.

COLLINGWOOD (1976) recorded from North Korea the South European species, L. rabaudi , but the specimens from De-song-san, 12 km NE of Pyongyang, Nr. 38 indeed belong to T. kaszabi (material in HNHM, examined); this COLLINGWOOD’ s mistake was repeated by TERAYAMA et al. (1992) and by KIM (1996, 2003).

Figures

Figs 24–31. Details of structure of workers of Temnothorax argentipes (syntype, 24, 25), T.congruus (syntype, 26, 27), T. eburneipes (syntype, 28, 29), T. kaszabi (paratype, 30) and T. kurilensis