Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Biología, Ciencias Ambientales y Química, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Biología, Ciencias Ambientales y Química, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
J Insect Sci. 2014 Jan 1;14. doi: 10.1093/jisesa/ieu074. Print 2014.
Recently, a series of systematized studies of the Milieu Souterrain Superficiel (MSS) are being carried in several enclaves of the Iberian Peninsula, which have entailed the finding of the enigmatic ant Aphaenogaster cardenai Espadaler, 1981, hitherto considered as hypogean, in a mountain range far away from its known distribution area. Its ecological role and its possible area of distribution are discussed due to this finding, as well as its known morphology, distribution, habitat use, flight ability of the sexual forms, and moment of activity. This enabled reviewing and discussing the actual knowledge on the possible adaptations and exaptations of the Formicidae to the subterranean environments in wide sense and concretely to the MSS. According to all above, ants might adapt to the deepest hypogean environments by means of changes in their social structure, but without those changes, the MSS would be their last frontier in their process of colonization of hypogean environments.
最近，在伊比利亚半岛的几个飞地中正在进行一系列对浅层地下环境（MSS）的系统研究，这导致发现了神秘的蚂蚁 Aphaenogaster cardenai Espadaler，1981 年，迄今被认为是地下的，在远离其已知分布区的山脉中。由于这一发现，讨论了它的生态作用及其可能的分布范围，以及它已知的形态、分布、栖息地利用、有性形式的飞行能力和活动时间。这使我们能够回顾和讨论关于 Formicidae 对广义地下环境和具体的 MSS 的可能适应和特化的现有知识。综上所述，蚂蚁可能通过改变其社会结构来适应最深的地下环境，但如果没有这些变化，MSS 将是它们在地下环境殖民过程中的最后一个边界。
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