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Who are the people that myrmecologists “use” as name-givers to new ant-species? A few examples from recent tormented ant history…

Teleutomyrmex schneideri Kutter, 1950.

Let’s start with the ant Teleutomyrmex schneideri. H. Kutter named that ant after the Swiss Prof. Dr. Otto Schneider-Orelli (1880-1965), his teacher and friend. Prof. Dr. Otto Schneider-Orelli became Doctor in Botany (plants.) in 1905, assistant in botany (grapes for wine) from 1905 till 1913 in Wädenswil and changed to entomology from 1913 till 1917 there. Kept working on insects at the ETH from 1917 on and became professor at the ETH in 1921. In 1928 he became the first director of the Institute of Entomology of the ETH. Kept the functions of professor and director till his retirement in 1950. His most important job was curator of the entomological collection of the ETH in Zurich (1917-1950). He worked as entomologist on Hemiptera as pests in agriculture and forests.
His father and his son also were botanists (Later, his son became, like his father, an entomologist.).

Tetramorium schneideri Emery, 1898.

C. Emery named this ant after Prof. Oskar Schneider, another botanist, from Germany, who had collected the holotype. Couldn’t find more about this Prof. Oskar Schneider.
When Teleutomyrmex schneideri was placed in Tetramorium it became a junior synonym of Emery’s ant and got another name…

Teleutomyrmex kutteri Tinaut, 1990.

Yes, A. Tinaut dedicated this ant to Dr. H. Kutter…

Tetramorium semilaeve var.kutteri Santschi, 1927.

In 1927, F. Santschi described the ant and named it after the collector of the animal, H. Kutter. In 2017, the name was synonymised with Tetramorium indocile Santschi, 1927, described in the same paper but four pages earlier…
When Teleutomyrmex kutteri was placed in Tetramorium it became a junior synonym of Santschi’s ant. Ward et al. didn’t notice that fact and forgot to give it another name…

So, both ants were named kutteri to honour the same man.

Only 4 ant species are named after Prof. Dr. U. Maschwitz.

Camponotus (Karavaievia) maschwitzi Dumpert, 2006.

Camponotus (Karavaievia) maschwitzi Dumpert, in Dumpert, Maschwitz & Weissflog, 2006: 73, figs. 10-13 (w.q.) Borneo.

Dumpert, K., Maschwitz, U., Weissflog, A., 2006, “Description of five new weaver ant species of Camponotus subgenus Karavaievia EMERY, 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Malaysia and Thailand, with contribution to their biology, especially to colony foundation.” Myrmecologische Nachrichten, vol. 8, 69-82.

Cladomyrma maschwitzi Agosti, 1991.

Cladomyrma maschwitzi Agosti, 1991: 306, figs. 5, 8-12, 15, 19, 21, 24 (s.w.q.m.) West Malaysia. See also: Agosti, Moog & Maschwitz, 1999: 11.

Agosti, D. 1991. Revision of the oriental ant genus Cladomyrma, with an outline of the higher classification of the Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Syst. Entomol. 16: 293-310.
Agosti, D.; Moog, J.; Maschwitz, U. 1999. Revision of the Oriental plant-ant genus Cladomyrma. Am. Mus. Novit. 3283: 1-24.

Dolichoderus maschwitzi Dill, 2002.

Dolichoderus maschwitzi Dill, 2002: 52, figs. III-15, III-23, III-29, III-64 (w.q.m.) Borneo.

Dill, M., 2002,” Taxonomy of the migrating herdsman species of the genus Dolichoderus Lund, 1831, with remarks on the systematics of other Southeast-Asian Dolichoderus.” Pp. 17-113 in: Dill, M., Williams, D. J., Maschwitz, U., “Herdsmen ants and their mealybug partners.” Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main, vol. 557, 1-373.

Euprenolepis maschwitzi LaPolla, 2009.

Euprenolepis maschwitzi LaPolla, 2009: 8, figs. 4A-D (w.) Borneo.

LaPolla, J. S., 2009, “Taxonomic revision of the Southeast Asian ant genus Euprenolepis.” Zootaxa, vol. 2046, 1-25.

All the maschwitzi ant species got Maschwitz his name because they wanted to honour him for the behavioural research he did on the ant genera including these species.

"Unfortunately Leptothorax buschingeri could never be confirmed as a real species. The type material consists of a series of teratological males." Prof. A. Buschinger.

But still, the name is accepted and kept in the list of valid species...

Note on AntWiki: "This species is most probably a junior synonym of Leptothorax acervorum. Only a couple of males from one colony have been described. Having compared the type material with numerous ordinary males of L. acervorum, and with a number of misshaped specimens, I am convinced that L. buschingeri represents nothing but teratological specimens of the presumed host species. A. Buschinger 03:33, 30 November 2012 (EST)."

Two species dedicated to Prof. Alfred Buschinger.

Leptothorax buschingeri Kutter, 1967.

Leptothorax buschingeri Kutter, 1967: 88, figs. 14, 15 (m.). Switzerland. See also: Kutter, 1977: 128.

Kutter, H., 1967, “Beschreibung neuer Sozialparasiten von Leptothorax acervorum F. (Formicidae).” Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, vol. 40: 78-91.
Kutter, H., 1977, “Hymenoptera, Formicidae.” Insecta Helvetica. Fauna, vol. 6, 1-298.

Teleutomyrmex buschingeri Lapeva-Gjonova, 2017.
Tetramorium buschingeri (Lapeva-Gjonova, 2017).

Teleutomyrmex buschingeri Lapeva-Gjonova, in Kiran, et al. 2017: 151, figs. 3b, 4b, 5b (q.). Bulgaria.
[Note: Kiran, et al. 2017: 146, retain the “paraphyletic” genus Teleutomyrmex.]

Kiran, K., Karaman, C., Lapeva-Gjonova, A., Aksoy, V., 2017, “Two new species of the “ultimate” parasitic ant genus Teleutomyrmex Kutter, 1950 from the Western Palaearctic.” Myrmecological News, vol. 25, 145-155.

“Etymology: The species is dedicated to Prof. Alfred Buschinger who has made great contributions to the study of socially parasitic ants.”

In López, J. R., Martínez, A. B., 2011, “Notas Científicas: Nueva cita de Teleutomyrmex kutteri Tinaut, 1990 (Hym., Formicidae) para la Península Ibérica. New record of Teleutomyrmex kutteri Tinaut, 1990 (Hym., Formicidae) from the Iberian Peninsula.” Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.), nº. 49, p. 206. sea-entomologia.org/Publicacio…rmexkutteriFormicidae.pdf the most important passage is:

"The funiculus of this specimen has nine pieces, where the first and the second are very similar in length, and both more long than the third. This extra-long segment comes from the fusion of the second and third. This phenomenon occurs in all the specimens captured on at least one of the antennas (in the half of them affect the two antennas).
The cephalic surface is smooth and shiny, except for light reticulations near the compound eyes, barely perceptible. In T. schneideri this cross-linking between the eyes and the base of the antennas is much more obvious.
Another major difference between T. kutteri and T. schneideri is the length of the silks of the petiole. An average of 18.9 and 33.3 microns respectively. In the female that was measured under the SEM (x370 increases), the result was 19.7 ± 1.1micras (n = 15), a figure very similar to T. kutteri."

Sorry, but all the rest are to big to upload.....

...from Underground

nfu0 003.pdf

The answer: http://antcat.org/documents/6914/Scha%C ... graphy.pdf

Schär, S.; Talavera, G.; Espadaler, X.; Rana, J. D.; Andersen, A. A.; Cover, S. P.; Vila, R. 2018. Do Holarctic ant species exist? Trans-Beringian dispersal and homoplasy in the Formicidae. Journal of Biogeography 00:1-12. [2018-06-28]

If the authors in 2015 went on to accept Strongylognathus as the oldest name....

Strongylognathus Mayr, 1853

For our species all the names used would become:

Strongylognathus inquilinum (Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2015)
= Strongylognathus schneideri (Kutter, 1950)
Strongylognathus kutteri (Tinaut, 1990), still needs a new name
Strongylognathus seiferti (Kiran & Karaman, 2017)
Strongylognathus buschingeri (Lapeva-Gjonova, 2017)

A small note: In this thread we encounter reply no. 8. This is a cleaned-up version of AntWiki. All that is in it came from AntWiki. We only did make Ward, et al. 2015 ("2014") a uniform notation and did keep the synonymy like it stood in AntWiki. But we don't agree with them. I am a follower of Seifert, et al. 2016 in that I keep Teleutomyrmex, Anergates,... as separate genera and not as synonyms under Tetramorium... That is all...

....from Cuckoo Bumble Bees:

https://entomologytoday.org/20…umble-bees-cheating-ways/ or https://academic.oup.com/aesa/….1093/aesa/say031/5115643 or https://academic.oup.com/aesa/…ay031/26120150/say031.pdf

You know them from 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. or http://antcat.org/documents/67…ium_caespitum_complex.pdf

But there is more:

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30890-z
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30890-z.pdf
https://static-content.springe…2018_30890_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

oder https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcent…10.1186/s12862-018-1159-4

..... and social parasitism in the genus itself:

https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcent…10.1186/s12862-018-1159-4

when there is a solar eclipse?

https://entomologytoday.org/20…2017-total-solar-eclipse/ or https://academic.oup.com/aesa/….1093/aesa/say035/5123345 or https://watermark.silverchair.…1hQIDI9GocBEbogWmJwSKHspg

Keeping the ants in captivity:

Cuesta, D., García, F., García-Tejero, S. & Espadaler, X., 2009, “Resumen charla: Aportaciones a la biología de Teleutomyrmex schneideri Kutter, 1950: primer caso de cría en cautividad. [Contributions to the biology of Teleutomyrmex schneideri Kutter, 1950: first case of keeping in captivity.]” [abstract]. Iberomyrmex, vol. 1, p. 24.

http://www.mirmiberica.org/files/Iberomyrmex%20nº1.pdf

Ward, P. S., Brady, S. G., Fisher, B. L., Schultz, T. R., 2015, “The evolution of myrmicine ants: Phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).” Systematic Entomology, vol. 40, no. 1, (Article first published online: 23 July 2014), p. 61-81.

http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/a/ab/Ward_et_al_2015.pdf

Blaimer, B. B., Ward, P. S., Schultz, T. R., Fisher, B. L., Brady, S. G., 2018, “Paleotropical Diversification Dominates the Evolution of the Hyperdiverse Ant Tribe Crematogastrini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).” Insect Systematics and Diversity, vol. 2, no. 5, art. 3, p. 1-14.

http://antcat.org/documents/70…atogastrini_phylogeny.pdf

López, J. R., Martínez, A. B., 2011, “Notas Científicas: Nueva cita de Teleutomyrmex kutteri Tinaut, 1990 (Hym., Formicidae) para la Península Ibérica. New record of Teleutomyrmex kutteri Tinaut, 1990 (Hym., Formicidae) from the Iberian Peninsula.” Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.), nº. 49, p. 206.

http://sea-entomologia.org/Pub…rmexkutteriFormicidae.pdf

Tinaut, A., Ruano, F., Martínez, M. D., 2005, “Biology, Distribution and Taxonomic Status of the Parasitic Ants of the Iberian Peninsula (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Myrmicinae).” Sociobiology, vol. 46, no. 3, p. 449-489.

http://antcat.org/documents/4077/21005.pdf

Gösswald, K., 1952, “Zur Biologie und Histologie parasitär degenerierter Ameisenarten mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Teleutomyrmex schneideri Kutter (Tribus Tetramorini).” Transactions of the IX-th International Congress of Entomology, Amsterdam, August 17-24 (1951), vol. 1, p. 446-448.

Here you can find a unique look into this fascinating article!

Goszwald111.pdf

In 2017 the host ant for Tel. schneideri became Tetr. alpestre Steiner, Schlick-Steiner & Seifert, 2010.

http://antcat.org/documents/4061/23229.pdf
https://www.myrmecologicalnews…_printable.pdf&format=raw