Temnothorax argentipes ( WHEELER, 1928 )

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 : 121

Temnothorax argentipes ( WHEELER, 1928)

( Figs 24, 25 )

Leptothorax argentipes WHEELER, 1928: 25 , workers, queen, China, Ausu near Foochow; CHAPMAN & CAPCO, 1951: 110; BOLTON, 1995: 236; RADCHENKO, 1994 b: 153, 1996:18 (misspelled as argentipex).

Temnothorax argentipes : BOLTON, 2003: 271.

Material examined: 5 workers and 1 queen, syntypes, “near Ausu, Foochow (Silvestri)”,

“ M.C.Z. Type 4–6 71023”, “ Syntypes Leptothorax argentipes WHEELER ” ( MCZ) .

Distribution. Known from the type locality only.

Ecology is unknown.

Notes. T. argentipes is most similar to T. nassonovi and differs from it by the shape of the petiole, which has a very long anterior peduncle ( PI > 1.60 vs. <1.30) and a petiolar node with narrowly rounded dorsum ( Figs 25 and 34 ); by the different sculpture of the head dorsum: frons with quite coarse longitudinal, slightly sinuous rugae, remaining parts of the head dorsum coarsely reticulate, surface between the rugae not coarsely but densely punctate (in T. nassonovi the head dorsum is finely striated and densely punctate, Figs 24 and 33 ).

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

Figs 32–41. Details of structure of workers of Temnothorax mongolicus (holotype, 32), T. nassonovi (33, 34),T. spinosior (syntype, 35), T. taivanensis (syntype, 36, 37) and T. wui (syntype, 38, 39), Leptothorax muscorum (40) and L. oceanicus (41) (32, 34, 35, 37, 39). Alitrunk and waist in profile;