Tetramorium alpestre
Steiner et al., 2010
valid
Tetramorium alpestre
Steiner et al., 2010:
249, figs. 2-9 (w.q.m.)
AUSTRIA.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker Primary type locality: Austria: (Tyrol) Vent, 46.8548°N, 10.9097°E, 2000 m., Weg zur Martin-Busch-Hütte, 15.viii.2007, #251 (H. Müller). Primary type depository: SMNG.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 38 paratype workers, 10 paratype queens, 4 paratype males. Secondary type locality: 17 paratype workers, 5 paratype queens, 4 paratype males with same data as holotype, 21 paratype workers, 5 paratype queens with same data as holotype but #252. Secondary type depositories: IEUI, SMNG, TLIA.
- Status as species: Borowiec, 2014: 194; Lebas et al., 2016: 384; Wagner et al., 2017: 113 (redescription); Steiner et al., 2017: 19; Wagner et al., 2018: 4 (in list) ; Seifert, 2018: 229.
Citations
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
- Seifert, B. 2018. The ants of Central and North Europe:. Boxberg: Lutra, 407 pp.
- Steiner, F. M.; Ambach, J.; Glaser, F.; Wagner, H. C.; Müller, J.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2017. Checklisten der Fauna Ősterreichs, No. 9: Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Wien: Ősterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1-23.
- Steiner, F. M.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Seifert, B. 2010. [Untitled. Tetramorium alpestre sp. n. Steiner, Schlick-Steiner and Seifert]. Pp. 249-250 in: Steiner, F. M.; Seifert, B.; Moder, K.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2010. A multisource solution for a complex problem in biodiversity research: Description of the cryptic ant species Tetramorium alpestre sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 249:223-254. PDF
- Wagner, H. C.; Arthofer, W.; Seifert, B.; Muster, C.; Steiner, F. M.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2017. Light at the end of the tunnel: Integrative taxonomy delimits cryptic species in the Tetramorium caespitum complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 25:95-129. PDF
- Wagner, H. C.; Gamisch, A.; Arthofer, W.; Moder, K.; Steiner, F. M.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2018. Evolution of morphological crypsis in the Tetramorium caespitum ant species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Scientific Reports (Nature) 8 (12547):1-10. 10.1038/s41598-018-30890-z PDF