Philomessor (Attumbrinus) cloueti ( Portevin, 1907 )
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Philomessor (Attumbrinus) cloueti ( Portevin, 1907) View in CoL
( Figs 5, 7 View Figs 1–8. 1, 3 , 12 View Figs 9–12 , 13 View Figs 13–20. 13, 14 , 30 View Figs 30–32 , 37, 38 View Figs 33–40. 33, 35, 37, 39 , 48 View Figs 41–48. 41 , 53, 54 View Figs 49–54. 49, 51, 53 , 59 View Fig )
Catopomorphus (Attaephilus) Cloueti Portevin, 1907: 67 . Catopomorphus (Attaephilus) Cloueti: HATCH (1928) : 187 (catalogue). Philomessor (Attumbrinus) Cloueti: JEANNEL (1936) View in CoL : 309 (monograph). Philomessor (Attumbrinus) cloueti: PERREAU (2000) View in CoL : 109 (catalogue); PERREAU (2004): 147 (catalogue).
Type locality. ‘du Medjez-Amar: Mahouna 1400 m’ [ Algeria, Atlas Mts., Guelma Province, Mahouna near Medjez-Amar, 1400 m a.s.l.].
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ( Fig. 30 View Figs 30–32 ): J ( MNHN), ‘[label with adult specimen of worker of Camponotus (Myrmentoma) cf. spissinodis Forel, 1909] // Mahouna 1400 [m] [handwritten] / L. CLOUET DES PESRUCHES / à MEDJEZ-AMAR / Algérie [all printed] / 9/5.[18]98 [underside of the label, handwritten] // cloueti [handwritten] / [illegible text, handwritten] // TYPE [red label, printed] // MUSEUM PARIS / COLL. GÉNÉRALE [printed] // Messor / barbarus L [handwritten] // cloueti [handwritten]’.
Additional material examined. ALGERIA: ‘O. Kairous, Mouzaia [= Kairous wadi, Mouzaïa Mts.], v.1932, Peyerimhoff [leg.]’, 1 J ( MNHN).
Notes. Philomessor (Attumbrinus) cloueti ( Portevin, 1907) is known only in males; female remains undescribed. It was described by PORTEVIN (1907) after one male from the Mahouna Mountains in northern Algeria. JEANNEL (1936) published a further record from ‘O. Kairous, Mouzaia’ and subjoined that according to Peyerimhoff more specimens were collected in this locality. It is possible that there may have been some females among them, nevertheless JEAN- NEL (1936) mentioned no morphological female characters in the taxonomic part of his paper.
RŮŽIČKA (1996) published his key to the species of the subgenus Attumbrinus , in which he erroneously gives P. (A.) cloueti as missing the pubescence on mesotibiae. He studied the morphological characters only on the holotype (J. Růžička, Praha, pers. comm.), where the setae are glued together because of dirt and hence indistinct. In the specimen from Mouzaïa the pubescence on the inner margin of mesotibiae is clearly visible ( Fig. 48 View Figs 41–48. 41 ).
JEANNEL (1936: Figs 685–688) supplemented the original description by PORTEVIN (1907) with drawings of the habitus, antenna, metatibia with tarsus and dorsal view of aedeagus. In the present paper further morphological characters are presented, like the lateral view of aedeagus ( Fig. 5 View Figs 1–8. 1, 3 ), the shape of the sternum VIII ( Fig. 7 View Figs 1–8. 1, 3 ), and the shape of genital segment ( Fig. 12 View Figs 9–12 ). Figures of the habitus of the type specimen ( Fig. 30 View Figs 30–32 ), antenna ( Fig. 13 View Figs 13–20. 13, 14 ), shape of pronotum ( Fig. 54 View Figs 49–54. 49, 51, 53 ), punctation and pubescence of elytra ( Figs 37, 38 View Figs 33–40. 33, 35, 37, 39 ), as well as the shape and pubescence of meso- and metatibiae ( Figs 48 View Figs 41–48. 41 , 53 View Figs 49–54. 49, 51, 53 ) are given, too.
Biology. According to JEANNEL (1936) P. (A.) cloueti is a myrmecophilous species associated with Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767) ( Hymenoptera : Formicidae ). The same taxon name is written also on the label beneath the holotype, but on another label ( Fig. 30 View Figs 30–32 ) a worker of Camponotus (Myrmentoma) cf. spissinodis Forel, 1909 is mounted. Because this ant species is attached to the holotype of P. (A.) cloueti , we can presume that the holotype was collected by Clouet des Pesruches just in the nest of this ant, with which it is really associated. The holotype was collected at the altitude 1400 m a.s.l. (see data on the type label).
Distribution. Algeria: Mahouna near Medjez-Amar, Kairous in Mouzaïa Mts. ( Fig. 59 View Fig ).
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Philomessor (Attumbrinus) cloueti ( Portevin, 1907 )
Vávra, Jiří Ch. 2015 |
Catopomorphus (Attaephilus) Cloueti Portevin, 1907: 67
PERREAU M. 2004: 147 |
PERREAU M. 2000: 109 |
JEANNEL R. 1936: 309 |
HATCH M. H. 1928: 187 |
PORTEVIN G. 1907: 67 |