@article {550, title = {Turning one into five: Integrative taxonomy uncovers complex evolution of cryptic species in the harvester ant Messor {\textquotedblleft}structor{\textquotedblright}.}, journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution}, volume = {127}, year = {2018}, month = {2018-10-31}, pages = {387-404}, chapter = {387}, abstract = {

Seed harvesting ants are ecosystem engineers that shape vegetation, nutrient cycles, and microclimate. Progress in ecological research is, however, slowed down by poor species delimitation. For example, it has not been resolved to date, how many species the European harvester ant Messor \“structor\” (Latreille, 1798) represents. Since its first description, splitting into additional taxa was often proposed but not accepted later on due to inconsistent support from morphology and ecology. Here, we took an iterative integrative-taxonomy approach \– comparing multiple, independent data sets of the same sample \– and used traditional morphometrics, Wolbachia symbionts, mitochondrial DNA, amplified fragment length polymorphism, and ecological niche modelling. Using the complementarity of the data sets applied, we resolved multiple, strong disagreements over the number of species, ranging from four to ten, and the allocation of individuals to species. We consider most plausible a five-species hypothesis and conclude the taxonomic odyssey by redescribing Messor structor, M. ibericus Santschi, 1925, and M. muticus (Nylander, 1849) stat. rev., and by describing two new species, M. ponticus sp.n. and M. mcarthuri sp.n. The evolutionary explanations invoked in resolving the various data conflicts include pronounced morphological crypsis, incomplete lineage-sorting or ongoing cospeciation of endosymbionts, and peripatric speciation \– these ants\’ significance to evolutionary biology parallels that to ecology. The successful solution of this particular problem illustrates the usefulness of the integrative approach to other systematic problems of comparable complexity and the importance of understanding evolution to drawing correct conclusions on species\’ attributes, including their ecology and biogeography.

}, keywords = {Amplified fragment length polymorphism, Ecological niche modelling, Mitochondrial DNA, Species delimitation, Traditional morphometrics, Wolbachia endosymbionts}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.005}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790317305523?via\%3Dihub}, author = {Steiner, Florian M. and Cs{\H o}sz, S{\'a}ndor and B{\'a}lint Mark{\'o} and Alexander Gamisch and Lukas Rinnhofer and Clemens Folterbauer and Sarina Hammerle and Christian Stauffer and Wolfgang Arthofer and Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C.} } @article {549, title = {Fourmis d{\textquoteright}Espagne et autres esp{\`e}ces pal{\'e}arctiques (Hymenopt.).}, journal = {EOS. Revista Espa{\~n}ola de Entomolog{\'\i}a}, volume = {1}, year = {1925}, month = {1925-12-31}, pages = {339-360}, chapter = {339}, author = {Santschi, Felix} } @article {548, title = {Preliminary contributions toward a revision of Greek Messor Forel, 1890 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).}, journal = {Turkish Journal of Zoology}, volume = {43}, year = {2019}, pages = {52-67}, chapter = {52}, abstract = {

Based on recently collected material and study on type specimens Messor carpathous Menozzi, 1936 n. stat. and Messor concolor Santschi, 1927 n. stat. are raised to species rank and redescribed. Messor creticus sp. nov. is described as a new endemic species to Crete. Revised data for members of the Messor structor complexes are given and updated checklist of Greek Messor taxa is provided.

}, keywords = {Endemic species, Formicidae, Greece, Mediterranean, Messor}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1809-41}, url = {https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol43/iss1/5/}, author = {Salata, Sebastian and Borowiec, Lech} } @article {461, title = {Relations between nests of Messor wasmanni in Greece}, journal = {Insectes Sociaux}, volume = {35}, year = {1988}, month = {Jan-03-1988}, pages = {1-18}, abstract = {

Foraging behaviour of Messor wasmanni, a seed collecting ant, foraging along trails up to 15m long in open flat ground in Greece, is described. These ants foraged in daytime on about one day in three, the nest entrance being otherwise closed with discarded remains of the plant material. They started approximately at dawn and material. They started approximately at dawn and continued until the ground surface temperature reached 40\–43\°C. Of the order of 20\–30,000 individual foraging expeditions were made from the nest per day involving about 5,000 individual ants. They dispersed from the end of the trail and searched individually in limited areas of a few square feet (say half m2). Nests at a density of about 70 to the hectare were spaced in a pattern which was not random. Trails go out radially from each nest, usually a single trail in any day. Foraging areas for different nests overlapped but the chance of trails intersecting was low. An intersection was seen only once in approximately 500 trails from about a dozen nests examined in detail. The two trails met at right angles and the shorter one broke up at the junction, the ants from it going on across the other trail in the same general direction but more dispersed than before. All nests tended to forage after rain but the net synchronizing effect of this tendency was small, the nests in general foraging independently of one another in time. Calculation of the probability of trail intersection, allowing for the chance of adjacent nests having trails on the same day, and assuming a random trail direction together with the observed distribution of trail length gave a low value (7) for the expected number of intersections. No evidence of aggressive behaviour between different nests was found. Individuals, marked with paint and transferred artificially to a new nest, survived and foraged among those of their new nest. On three ocasions small subsidiary nests were found from which ants went to and fro along a trail to the main nest and on one occasion eggs and larval stages were transferred. On many occasions groups of ants dug small holes in the ground adjacent to a trail, which are most easily explained as incipient subsidiary nests.

}, issn = {0020-1812}, doi = {10.1007/BF02224134}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF02224134}, author = {Harkness, Robert D. and Isham, V.} } @article {244, title = {{\"U}ber Stridulationst{\"o}ne bei Ameisen}, journal = {Zoologischer Anzeiger}, volume = {35}, year = {1910}, month = {[1910-03-15]}, pages = {523-526}, author = {Krausse, Anton Hermann} } @article {243, title = {Travaux scientifiques de l{\textquoteright}Arm{\'e}e d{\textquoteright}Orient (1916-1918). Fourmis. }, journal = {Bulletin du Mus{\'e}um National d{\textquoteright}Histoire Naturelle }, volume = {32}, year = {1926}, month = {[1926-11-25]}, pages = {286-293}, author = {Santschi, Felix} } @article {242, title = {Beitr{\"a}ge zur Kenntniss der palaearktischen Ameisen.}, journal = {{\"O}fversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens F{\"o}rhandlingar}, volume = {20}, year = {1898}, month = {[1898] }, pages = {124-151}, author = {Emery, Carlo} } @article {241, title = {Revision des Messor du groupe instabilis Sm. (Hymenopt.). }, journal = {Bolet{\'\i}n de la Real Sociedad Espa{\~n}ola de Historia Natural}, volume = {27}, year = {1927}, month = {[1927-05]}, pages = {225-250}, author = {Santschi, Felix} } @inbook {240, title = {Insectes du Caucase et des provinces transcaucasiennes.}, booktitle = { Bulletin de la Soci{\'e}t{\'e} Imp{\'e}riale des Naturalistes de Moscou}, volume = {12}, year = {1839}, pages = {44-68}, author = {Victor, Ivanovitsch de Motschoulsky} } @article {239, title = {Les fourmis du genre Messor en Syrie. Position syst{\'e}matique. Description de quelques ail{\'e}s et de formes nouvelles. R{\'e}partition g{\'e}ographique.}, journal = {Ecologia Mediterranea }, volume = {7}, year = {1981}, month = {[1981]}, pages = {139-153}, author = {Tohm{\'e}, Georges and Tohm{\'e}, Henriette} } @article {208, title = {A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. Synonymic list. }, journal = {Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft}, volume = {1}, year = {1987}, month = {[1987-08-31] }, chapter = {51}, author = {Agosti, Donat and Collingwood, Cedric A.} } @article {148, title = {Fourmis de Tunisie et de l{\textquoteright}Alg{\'e}rie orientale.}, journal = {Annales de la Soci{\'e}t{\'e} Entomologique de Belgique}, volume = {34}, year = {1890}, month = {04/1890}, pages = {61-76}, chapter = {lxi}, author = {Forel, Auguste-Henri} } @book {125, title = {Essai sur l{\textquoteright}histoire des fourmis de la France.}, year = {1798}, pages = {50}, publisher = {F. Brive}, organization = {F. Brive}, address = {Bourdeaux, France}, author = {Latreille, Pierre Andr{\'e}} } @article {19, title = {Glanures myrm{\'e}cologiques.}, journal = {Annales de la Soci{\'e}t{\'e} Entomologique de Belgique}, volume = {54}, year = {1910}, month = {02/1910}, pages = {6-32}, chapter = {6}, author = {Forel, Auguste-Henri} } @article {2, title = {Nuovi contributi alla conoscenza della fauna delle Isole italiane dell{\textquoteright}Egeo. VI. Hymenoptera - Formicidae.}, journal = {Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d{\textquoteright}Agricoltura. Portici}, volume = {29}, year = {1936}, month = {06/1936}, pages = {262-311}, chapter = {262}, abstract = {





}, author = {Menozzi, Carlo} }