TY - JOUR AU - Báthori, Ferenc AU - Herczeg, Gábor AU - Vilizzi, Lorenzo AU - Jégh, Tamás AU - Kakas, Csilla AU - Petrovics, Milán AU - Csősz, Sándor TI - A survey and risk screening of non-native ant species colonising greenhouses in Hungary JF - BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS J2 - BIOL INVASIONS PY - 2024 SN - 1387-3547 DO - 10.1007/s10530-023-03227-9 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34505866 ID - 34505866 N1 - Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, ELTE-Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmány street 4, Vácrátót, 2163, Hungary HUN-REN-ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Lodz, 90-237, Poland Budapest, Hungary Tatabánya, Hungary Export Date: 7 February 2024 CODEN: BLINF Correspondence Address: Báthori, F.; Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Hungary; email: ferenc.bathori@gmail.com AB - Invasive species represent a severe threat for ecosystem health worldwide. With increasing global trade and ongoing climate change, monitoring non-native species and their hotspots of potential spread is becoming increasingly important. Invasive ants are one of the most problematic groups of organisms costing billions of dollars a year globally to control. Therefore, emerging ant invasions require more focused engagement to assess their extent, and effective measures to prevent the spread of non-native invasive species can be time consuming and expensive to implement. In addition to places with high commercial traffic, greenhouses are potential hotspots for non-native species as they can be entry points for invasions. However, the role of greenhouses in ant invasions is still understudied. In this study, an extensive survey of greenhouses in zoos and botanical gardens of Hungary was conducted to search for non-native ant species. The five species found in the surveys and an additional two known from Hungary were then screened for their risk of invasiveness in the country under both current and predicted climate conditions. Three species were found to pose a considerable conservation and economic risk for Hungary, and one is already present in the wild. Increased monitoring of greenhouses and other heated premises for the presence of non-native species and targeted chemical eradication are needed to prevent their spread. The risk screening method employed in this study can be applied to a wide range of terrestrial animal taxa, thereby providing a basis for developing more effective prevention and control strategies against invasive species. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Báthori, Ferenc AU - Heinze, J. AU - Trindl, A. AU - Seifert, B. AU - Herczeg, Gábor AU - Csősz, Sándor TI - Host-switching events are not always the driver of speciation in social parasites: a case study in Temnothorax (Myrmoxenus) ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) JF - JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY J2 - J ZOOL PY - 2024 SN - 0952-8369 DO - 10.1111/jzo.13140 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34452416 ID - 34452416 N1 - Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, ELTE-Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Zoology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany Department of Entomology, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany HUN-REN-ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 8 February 2024 CODEN: JOZOE Correspondence Address: Báthori, F.; Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Hungary; email: bathori.ferenc@ttk.elte.hu AB - Abstract Host?parasite systems, including social parasites that exploit resources of the host colonies, are fascinating objects for evolutionary biologists mainly due to the dynamic and often rapid host?parasite coevolution. Host-switching events are believed to induce rapid speciation of parasitic species. The socially parasitic ant lineage Myrmoxenus, which corresponds to the monophyletic Temnothorax corsicus group, counts in total a dozen species. Most Myrmoxenus species utilize a single host species, but a few others, like Myrmoxenus ravouxi (André, 1896) and M.?gordiagini Ruzsky, 1902, are known to use multiple host taxa. Myrmoxenus zaleskyi (Sadil, 1953) was described as a putative congener of M.?ravouxi based on its distinct host selection. In this paper, we investigate the diversity of the widely distributed European lineages M.?ravouxi and M.?zaleskyi from multiple and complementary perspectives to understand whether the host preference exhibited by these two forms implies speciation. We integrated evidence from molecular genetics using mitochondrial CO I/CO II genes, including the tLeu-region, and multivariate analyses of morphometric data collected from workers and female sexuals (gynes). Although there is substantial regional host species specificity, results suggest that host switching did not result in phylogenetic or morphological divergence and that the central European M.?zaleskyi can be considered the junior synonym of M.?ravouxi. As the lineage Myrmoxenus has been the subject of considerable evolutionary research, these results are essential to achieve a more accurate picture of host?parasite systems in the future and further strengthen the justification of an integrative approach in studying similarly complex systems. We advise against describing new parasitic species based on host preference unless coupled with marked heritable phenotypic adaptations. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Csősz, Sándor AU - Seifert, Bernhard AU - László, Márk AU - Yusupov, Zalimkhan M AU - Herczeg, Gábor TI - Broadly sympatric occurrence of two thief ant species Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798) and S. juliae (Arakelian, 1991) in the East European Pontic-Caspian region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) is disclosed JF - ZOOKEYS J2 - ZOOKEYS VL - 1187 PY - 2023 SP - 189 EP - 222 PG - 34 SN - 1313-2989 DO - 10.3897/zookeys.1187.105866 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34452384 ID - 34452384 N1 - HUN-REN-ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, ELTE-Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary Department of Entomology, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Am Museum 1, Görlitz, 02826, Germany Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories of RAS, Nalchik, 360051, Russian Federation Export Date: 16 February 2024 Correspondence Address: Csősz, S.; HUN-REN-ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Hungary; email: csosz.sandor@ttk.elte.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Orou, N AU - Csősz, Sándor AU - Arnan, X AU - Pol, R G AU - Arthofer, W AU - Schlick-Steiner, B C AU - Steiner, F M TI - Messor erwini sp. n., a hitherto cryptic harvester ant in the Iberian Peninsula JF - ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER J2 - ZOOL ANZ VL - 307 PY - 2023 SP - 36 EP - 53 PG - 18 SN - 0044-5231 DO - 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.09.001 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34143970 ID - 34143970 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Csősz, Sándor AU - Loss, Ana C. AU - Fisher, Brian L. TI - Exploring the diversity of the Malagasy Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna via integrative taxonomy JF - ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION J2 - ORG DIVERS EVOL VL - 23 PY - 2023 SP - 917 EP - 927 PG - 11 SN - 1439-6092 DO - 10.1007/s13127-023-00610-1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34065471 ID - 34065471 AB - The genus Ponera includes over 60 extant species worldwide. These tiny, endogeic predator ants are predominantly distributed in the Indomalaya and Australasia regions, with a few additional Holarctic species. Herein, we explore and describe the diversity of the Malagasy Ponera fauna through an integrative taxonomic approach. We obtained our morphological species hypotheses from multivariate analyses of ten continuous morphometric characters. Species boundaries and reliability of morphological clusters were tested via confirmatory Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), cross-validation (LOOCV), and analyses of a mitochondrial COI gene fragment. According to the combined application of the analyses, altogether, three species are inferred in the Malagasy region, Ponera petila Wilson (1957), P. swezeyi Wheeler (1933), and P. adumbrans Csősz & Fisher sp. n. Ponera petila and P. swezeyi belong to the Indo-Australian Ponera tenuis group; the third species, P. adumbrans sp. n., is morphologically similar to the Papua New Guinean P. clavicornis Emery (1900). Furthermore, Linear Discriminant Analysis classified the type specimens of P. bableti Perrault (1993), along with a P. petila cluster with posterior p = 1. Therefore, we propose the new junior synonymy of P. bableti with P. petila . Madagascar’s extant biodiversity is predominantly explained by colonization events from the African continent across the Mozambique channel via rafting. However, since no native Ponera species are known from the Afrotropical continent, and the closest congeners have an almost exclusively Indo-Australian distribution, the likelihood of an Indo-Australian origin of the Malagasy Ponera fauna is implied. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Csősz, Sándor AU - Báthori, Ferenc AU - Rádai, Zoltán AU - Herczeg, Gábor AU - Fisher, Brian L. TI - Comparing ant morphology measurements from microscope and online AntWeb.org 2D z‐stacked images JF - ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION J2 - ECOL EVOL VL - 13 PY - 2023 IS - 3 SN - 2045-7758 DO - 10.1002/ece3.9897 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33710405 ID - 33710405 N1 - ELKH-ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, ELTE-Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States Export Date: 26 May 2023 Correspondence Address: Báthori, F.; Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Hungary; email: ferenc.bathori@gmail.com LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Lapeva-Gjonova, Albena AU - Csősz, Sándor AU - Báthori, Ferenc TI - Fungi Associated with Messor Ants on the Balkan Peninsula: First Biogeographical Data JF - DIVERSITY (BASEL) J2 - DIVERSITY-BASEL VL - 14 PY - 2022 IS - 12 SN - 1424-2818 DO - 10.3390/d14121132 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33538335 ID - 33538335 N1 - Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, Sofia, 1164, Bulgaria ELKH-ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Biological Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1117, Hungary Export Date: 14 February 2023 Correspondence Address: Lapeva-Gjonova, A.; Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Bulgaria; email: gjonova@gmail.com AB - Ant nests’ relatively stable and long-lasting microhabitats present ideal living conditions for many uni- and multicellular organisms, whose relationships range from mutualistic to parasitic. Messor harvester ants inhabit arid and semi-arid open areas where their colonies consist of large numbers of individuals. Due to the high number of other organisms associated with harvester ants, their nests can be defined as islands for unique biota. Despite significant progress in research on ant-associated fungi in Europe, little is still known about the recently described ectoparasitic fungus Rickia lenoirii Santamaria, 2015 (Laboulbeniales), found on two species of ants of the genus Messor. Here we report for the first time the occurrence of the ectoparasitic ant-associated fungus R. lenoirii from three countries (Albania, Bulgaria, and continental Greece) and multiple localities in the Balkans. The fungus was detected on four ant host species—Messor structor (Latreille, 1798), M. wasmanni Krausse, 1910, M. hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987, and M. mcarthuri Steiner et al., 2018 with the latter two representing new host records. Furthermore, spores of the widespread endoparasitic fungus of ants, Myrmicinosporidium durum Hölldobler, 1933 (Blastocladiomycota), were reported for the first time in Messor structor (Bulgaria). Images of the ant-associated Rickia lenoirii taken with a scanning electron microscope, a comparison with R. wasmannii, and a distribution map are also presented. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Báthori, Ferenc AU - Jégh, Tamás AU - Csősz, Sándor TI - Formerly considered rare, the ant species Cryptopone ochracea (Mayr, 1855) can be commonly detected using citizen-science tools JF - BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL J2 - BIODIVERS DATA J VL - 10 PY - 2022 SN - 1314-2836 DO - 10.3897/BDJ.10.e83117 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32847435 ID - 32847435 N1 - Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary Independent Researcher, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 28 November 2022 Correspondence Address: Báthor, F.; Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Hungary; email: ferenc.bathori@gmail.com LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - BOOK ED - Gallé, László ED - Kovács, Éva ED - Csősz, Sándor ED - Somogyi, Anna ED - Tartally, András ED - Báthori, Ferenc ED - Tánczos, Enikő TI - Contribution to the distribution of ant species in Hungary PB - Debreceni Egyetemi Kiadó CY - Debrecen PY - 2022 SP - 393 SN - 9789634909962 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32833650 ID - 32833650 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Csősz, Sándor AU - Báthori, Ferenc AU - Molet, Mathieu AU - Majoros, Gábor AU - Rádai, Zoltán TI - From Parasitized to Healthy-Looking Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Morphological Reconstruction Using Algorithmic Processing JF - LIFE-BASEL J2 - LIFE-BASEL VL - 12 PY - 2022 IS - 5 SN - 2075-1729 DO - 10.3390/life12050625 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32800106 ID - 32800106 N1 - Export Date: 14 February 2023 Correspondence Address: Csősz, S.; Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Hungary; email: sandorcsosz2@gmail.com LA - English DB - MTMT ER -