A striking color variation is detected in Ponera testacea Emery, 1895 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) across its Western Palaearctic geographic range

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dc.authoridLapeva-Gjonova, Albena/0000-0003-0811-0768
dc.authorwosidLapeva-Gjonova, Albena/AFD-8097-2022
dc.contributor.authorCsosz, Sandor
dc.contributor.authorKiran, Kadri
dc.contributor.authorKaraman, Celal
dc.contributor.authorLapeva-Gjonova, Albena
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-12T10:54:37Z
dc.date.available2024-06-12T10:54:37Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentTrakya Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we provide numeric morphology-based evidence that the dark-colored Ponera coarctata var. lucida Emery, 1898, formerly considered a synonym of P. coarctata (Latreille, 1802), is conspecific with the lighter-colored Ponera testacea Emery, 1895. Species hypotheses are developed via NC-PART clus-tering, combined with Partitioning Algorithm based on Recursive Thresholding (PART), and via PCA combined with gap statistics. We obtained our results from an extensive dataset from the 10 continuous morphometric traits measured on 165 workers belonging to 73 nest samples. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) confirmed the grouping of hypotheses generated by exploratory analyses with 100% classification success when all ten morphometric traits were involved. The Anatolian Turkish black and the predomi-nantly European yellow samples, did not separate based on their morphometric characteristics. These two color variations broadly overlap in their geographic range in Anatolian Turkey. The investigated type series of Ponera coarctata var. lucida Emery, 1898 (collected from Kazakhstan) fell within the P. testacea cluster instead of P. coarctata and is also classified with high certainty as P. testacea by confirmatory LDA. There-fore, we propose the synonymy of Ponera coarctata var. lucida Emery, 1898 with Ponera testacea Emery, 1895. As no other morphological differences than color patterns were detected between the black and pale P. testacea samples, we hold that these populations constitute geographically occurring color vari-ations of the same species. Finally, our quantitative morphology-based results show that relying on color patterns is not a robust approach in identifying European Ponera samples, particularly in the east, but using multivariate analyses of morphometric traits is advised instead.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Research, Development, and In-novation Fund [K 135795]; Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TuBTAK) [109T088, 111T811]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was partially supported by the National Research, Development, and In-novation Fund under grant no. K 135795 (S.C) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TuBTAK) projects no. 109T088 and 111T811 (K.K.) . Special thanks are due to Phil Attewell for kindly improving the language of the manu-script. We also wish to thank the three reviewers, J.J. Longino, B. Seifert, and H.C. Wagner, for their constructive critiques that helped to improve the manuscript's quality.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3897/zookeys.1084.79415
dc.identifier.endpage164en_US
dc.identifier.issn1313-2989
dc.identifier.issn1313-2970
dc.identifier.issue1084en_US
dc.identifier.pmid35233167en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85124335434en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage151en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1084.79415
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14551/19113
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000750859100001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPensoft Publishersen_US
dc.relation.ispartofZookeysen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectBiogeographyen_US
dc.subjectExploratory Analysesen_US
dc.subjectGap Statisticen_US
dc.subjectMorphometryen_US
dc.subjectSpecies Delimitationen_US
dc.subjectTaxonomic Revisionen_US
dc.subjectAnt Faunaen_US
dc.subjectInheritanceen_US
dc.subjectClustersen_US
dc.subjectMembersen_US
dc.titleA striking color variation is detected in Ponera testacea Emery, 1895 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) across its Western Palaearctic geographic rangeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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