Taxonomic history
Subspecies of Tetramorium semilaeve: Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 86 (in key); Kratochvíl, in Kratochvíl et al., 1944 PDF: 76 (in key).Subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum: Röszler, 1936b PDF: 57; Röszler, 1942b PDF: 28; Röszler, 1950 PDF: 224; Markó & Csosz, 2002 PDF: 113.Status as species: Röszler, 1951: 88; Bolton, 1995b: 409; Csosz & Markó, 2004 PDF: 52 (redescription) ; Markó et al., 2006 PDF: 71; Steiner et al., 2006 PDF: 179 (in table); Bračko, 2007 PDF: 19; Werner & Wiezik, 2007 PDF: 151; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 29; Csosz et al., 2011 PDF: 57; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 550; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 28; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 199 (see note in bibliography); Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 17; Lebas et al., 2016: 385; Radchenko, 2016: 247; Wagner et al., 2017 PDF: 115 (redescription); Wagner et al., 2018 10.1038/s41598-018-30890-z PDF: 4 (in list); Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 50; Seifert, 2018: 231.Material of the unavailable names Tetramorium caespitum pyrenaeica biroi, Tetramorium caespitum hungaricum rufitarsis, Tetramorium caespitum hungaricum szaboi referred here by Markó & Csosz, 2002 PDF: 113; Csosz & Markó, 2004 PDF: 52.Material of the unavailable name Tetramorium caespitum hungaricum haltrichi referred here by Csosz & Markó, 2004 PDF: 52.Records
(Map 40): Bulgaria ( Agosti and Collingwood 1987a , Atanassov and Dlusskij 1992 ); Central Predbalkan: Dermantsi vill. (Lukovit) [ Atanassov 1936( as Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve )]; Sofia Basin: Sofia [ Lapeva-Gjonova and Atanasova 2004 (as Tetramorium semilaeve ), Antonova 2005 , Antonova and Penev 2006 , 2008 ]; Plana Mt.: Kokalyane vill. ( Steiner et al. 2005 ); Belasitsa Mt.: at the foot of Belasitsa Mt. [ Atanassov 1964 (as Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve )]; Krupnik-Sandanski-Petrich Valley: Kresna [ Atanassov 1936 (as Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve )], around Mitino vill. [ Atanassov 1964 (as Tetramorium caespitum semilaeve )]; Sandanski ( Csősz and Markó 2004 ), Rupite ( Steiner et al. 2005 ); Eastern Rhodopi Mts: Byal Izvor vill. (Arda), Zhelezino vill. (Ivaylovgrad), between Odrintsi vill. and Svirachi vill. (Ivaylovgrad) [ Lapeva-Gjonova 2004a (as Tetramorium semilaeve )]; Northern Black Sea coast: Varna [ Csősz and Markó 2004 (as Tetramorium semilaeve )].
Notes:
This species, primarily described as a subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum , was raised to species rank by Röszler (1951) , but this name was then forgotten for many years, until Csősz and Markó (2004) redescribed it. The latter authors considered Tetramorium hungaricum as a Ponto-Caspian or Balkan element.
Tetramorium hungaricum is a species of ant in the family Formicidae found in Hungary, eastern Austria and Trassylvania, Central Europe. It occurs in grasslands of dry, south-exposed limestine or dolomitic slopes, also on sandy grasslands. Colonies tend to contain few to several (rarely up to few hundred) queens.
Tetramorium hungaricum is a species of ant in the family Formicidae found in Hungary, eastern Austria and Trassylvania, Central Europe. It occurs in grasslands of dry, south-exposed limestine or dolomitic slopes, also on sandy grasslands. Colonies tend to contain few to several (rarely up to few hundred) queens.
