Aphaenogaster atlantis

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Aphaenogaster atlantis
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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Specimen Labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 32.249974° to 30.866667°.

 
North
Temperate
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Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
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Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Morocco (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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)

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.