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Aphaenogaster atlantis
| Aphaenogaster atlantis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
| Species group: | testaceopilosa |
| Species: | A. atlantis |
| Binomial name | |
| Aphaenogaster atlantis Santschi, 1929
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 32.249974° to 30.866667°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Morocco (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
| Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species. |
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Estimated Abundance
| Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- atlantis. Aphaenogaster (Aphaenogaster) praedo var. atlantis Santschi, 1929e: 139 (w.) MOROCCO.
- Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: Morocco: Grand Atlas, Haute Reraya (= Oued Ghiraïa?), 2400 m.(Ch. Alluaud).
- [Note: Cagniant, 1990b: 124, cites 30w, 1q syntypes Morocco: High Atlas, nr Aroumd, 1900 m., above Imlil, 15 km. SSE Asni, v.1981; not type-material.]
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- Cagniant, 1990b: 125 (q.m.).
- Subspecies of praedo: Santschi, 1931a: 3; Santschi, 1933c: 399; Santschi, 1936c: 199.
- Status as species: Cagniant, 1990b: 123 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 68; Cagniant, 1996a: 78; Cagniant, 2006a: 196; Borowiec, L. 2014: 9.
- Distribution: Morocco.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 68, catalogue)
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Cagniant, H. 1990b. Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines: Aphaenogaster atlantis Santschi, 1929 bona species (n. status) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Sect. A Zool. Biol. Écol. Anim. (4) 12: 123-133 (page 125, queen, male described)
- Cagniant, H. 1990b. Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines: Aphaenogaster atlantis Santschi, 1929 bona species (n. status) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Sect. A Zool. Biol. Écol. Anim. (4) 12: 123-133. (page 123, raised to species)
- Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
- Santschi, F. 1929e. Fourmis du Maroc, d'Algérie et de Tunisie. Bull. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 69: 138-165 (page 139, worker described)
- Schifani, E., Alicata, A., Menchetti, M., Borowiec, L., Fisher, B.L., Karaman, C., Kiran, K., Oueslati, W., Salata, S., Blatrix, R. 2022. Revisiting the morphological species groups of West-Palearctic Aphaenogaster ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) under a phylogenetic perspective: toward an evolutionary classification. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 80, 627–648 (doi:10.3897/asp.80.e84428).
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Cagniant, H. "Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines: Aphaenogaster atlantis Santschi, 1929 bona species (n. status) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae)." Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Section A Zoologie, Biologia et Écologie Animales (4)12 (1990): 123-133.
- Cagniant, H. "Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines: Chalepoxenus brunneus n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Myrmicidae)." Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (n.s.)2 (1985): 141-146.
- Cagniant, H. "Liste actualisee des fourmis du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 193-200.
- Santschi, F. "Fourmis du Maroc, d'Algérie et de Tunisie." Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Bruxelles) 69 (1929): 138-165.
- Santschi, F. "Étude sur le sous-genre Aphaenogaster Mayr." Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40 (1933): 389-408.