Bernadou Abel, Fourcassié Vincent, Espadaler Xavier
Université de Toulouse, UPS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France ; Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain ; Present address: University of Regensburg, Biologie I, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Zookeys. 2013 Mar 15(277):13-23. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.277.4684. Print 2013.
Within the last decade, checklists of the ant fauna of several European countries have been published or updated. Nevertheless, no ant checklists have hitherto been published for the principality of Andorra, a small landlocked country located in the eastern part of the Pyrenees. This work presents a critical list of the ant species of Andorra based on a review of the literature and on the biological material we collected during several field campaigns conducted in Andorra since the year 2005. Seventy-five species belonging to 21 genera of Formicidae were recorded. Nine species were recorded for the first time in Andorra: Aphaenogaster gibbosa (Latreille, 1798), Camponotus lateralis (Olivier, 1792), Camponotus piceus (Leach, 1825), Formica exsecta Nylander, 1846, Lasius piliferus Seifert, 1992, Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895, Temnothorax lichtensteini (Bondroit, 1918), Temnothorax niger (Forel, 1894), Temnothorax nigriceps (Mayr, 1855). The most speciose genera were Formica Linnaeus, 1758 and Temnothorax Forel, 1890 with 14 and 12 species, respectively. The ant fauna of Andorra is mostly dominated by Central European species (some are typical cold climate specialists); however species belonging to the Mediterranean ant fauna were also found. This can be explained by the particular geographic situation of Andorra which is characterized by a high mountain Mediterranean climate.
在过去十年中，几个欧洲国家的蚂蚁动物区系名录已经发布或更新。然而，迄今为止，位于比利牛斯山脉东部的内陆小国安道尔公国尚未发布过蚂蚁名录。这项工作基于文献综述以及我们自2005年以来在安道尔进行的几次野外考察中收集的生物材料，列出了安道尔蚂蚁物种的批判性名录。记录了属于蚁科21个属的75个物种。有9个物种是在安道尔首次记录到的：驼背弓背蚁（Aphaenogaster gibbosa，拉特雷耶，1798年）、侧纹弓背蚁（Camponotus lateralis，奥利维耶，1792年）、黑褐弓背蚁（Camponotus piceus，利奇，1825年）、截形蚁（Formica exsecta，尼兰德，1846年）、毛足蚁（Lasius piliferus，塞弗特，1992年）、马德拉小家蚁（Tapinoma madeirense，福雷尔，1895年）、李氏细胸蚁（Temnothorax lichtensteini，邦德罗伊，1918年）、黑细胸蚁（Temnothorax niger，福雷尔，1894年）、黑头细胸蚁（Temnothorax nigriceps，迈尔，1855年）。物种最多的属是1758年林奈建立的蚁属（Formica）和1890年福雷尔建立的细胸蚁属（Temnothorax），分别有14种和12种。安道尔的蚂蚁动物区系主要由中欧物种主导（有些是典型的寒冷气候专家）；然而，也发现了属于地中海蚂蚁动物区系的物种。这可以通过安道尔特殊的地理状况来解释，其特点是具有高山地中海气候。
