Aphaenogaster gemella marocana

Aphaenogaster gemella marocana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species group:	testaceopilosa
Species:	A. gemella
Subspecies:	A. gemella marocana
Trinomial name
Aphaenogaster gemella marocana (Forel, 1903)
Synonyms
Aphaenogaster gemella tingitana Santschi, 1933

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 35.784722° to 31.25°.

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.

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.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• marocana. Stenamma (Aphaenogaster) testaceopilosum var. marocana Forel, 1903c: 257 (w.m.) MOROCCO.
  • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: Morocco: Tangier (A. Müller).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • [Misspelled as maroccana by Emery, 1921f: 63.]
  • Santschi, 1929e: 140 (q.); Cagniant, 1990a: 49 (m.).
  • Combination in Aphaenogaster: Emery, 1908c: 319.
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1908c: 319; Emery, 1921f: 63; Santschi, 1929e: 140.
  • Subspecies of gemella: Santschi, 1933c: 404 (redescription); Santschi, 1936c: 199; Bernard, 1945: 131; Cagniant, 1990a: 47 (redescription); Cagniant, 1994: 25 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 71; Cagniant, 1996a: 78 (in text); Cagniant, 2006a: 196.
  • Distribution: Morocco.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 71, catalogue)
• Cagniant, H. 1990a [1989]. Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. Aphaenogaster gemella au Maroc: nouvelle description d'Aphaenogaster gemella ssp. marocana Forel (n. status) de la région de Tanger. Problèmes biogéographiques soulevés par l'espèce. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse 125: 47-54. (page 47, subspecies of gemella, and senior synonym of tingitana)
• Cagniant, H. 1994. Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. Description d'Aphaenogaster rifensis sp. n. Révision de la superespèce Aphaenogaster (supersp.) gemella Rog. (n. taxon) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. Evol. Zool. 119: 15-29. (page 25, see also)
• Emery, C. 1908d. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) (Fortsetzung.) III. Die mit Aphaenogaster verwandte Gattungengruppe. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1908: 305-338 (page 319, combination in Aphaenogaster)
• Forel, A. 1903e. Mélanges entomologiques, biologiques et autres. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 47: 249-268 (page 257, worker, male described)
• Santschi, F. 1929e. Fourmis du Maroc, d'Algérie et de Tunisie. Bull. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 69: 138-165 (page 140, queen described)
• Santschi, F. 1933d. Étude sur le sous-genre Aphaenogaster Mayr. Rev. Suisse Zool. 40: 389-408 (page 404, Stirps of gemella)

• 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).