A taxonomic revision of the Eurasian Myrmica salina species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Abstract: The Myrmica salina species complex (MSS complex) is distributed in steppes and other xerothermous open habitats of the Mediterranean and south Temperate zone from Iberia to E Kazakhstan, in latitudes between 37° in Central Asia and 56°N in S Sweden. The taxonomic status of twelve taxa belonging to the MSS complex s. str. was assessed. 16 numerically described phenotypic characters of workers and one distributional character were evaluated in explorative (principal component analysis, PCA) and hypothesis-driven (discriminant analysis, DA) approaches on the basis of 157 nest samples with 435 worker specimens from the whole geographic range. The PCA indicated two main clusters which were confirmed by a cross-validated DA in 98.1% of the samples. The two clusters are recognised as the species M. salina Ruzsky, 1905 and M. specioides Bondroit, 1918 which are sympatric over 4000 km of east-west extension of their range. It was not possible to credibly demonstrate a third or fourth entity.... https://www.soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/244

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: A taxonomic revision of the Eurasian Myrmica salina species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ; volume:83 ; number:2 ; year:2011 ; Soil organisms ; 83, Heft 2 (2011)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Seifert, Bernhard

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023080204281684198561
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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