Aphaenogaster gibbosa homonyma

Aphaenogaster gibbosa homonyma
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Aphaenogaster mauritanica)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species:	Aphaenogaster gibbosa homonyma Emery, 1921

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Aphaenogaster mauritanica.

Nomenclature

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

• homonyma. Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) gibbosa var. homonyma Emery, 1921f: 58 (w.) TUNISIA.
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
  • Type-localities: Algeria: Souk Ahras, and Duvivier (= Bouchegouf), iii.-iv.1889 (A. Forel).
  • [Note: Emery, 1921f: 58, nominated specimens of striola subterraneoides Emery, sensu Forel, 1890: lxxi, misidentification, as the taxon homonyma. They are the same specimens that Cagniant, 1996a: 74, used for his name foreli; therefore homonyma has priority and is automatically the senior synonym of foreli.]
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Subspecies of gibbosa: Bolton, 1995b: 70; Salata & Borowiec, 2018a: 14 (in key).
  • Status as species (as foreli): Cagniant, 2006a: 196; Borowiec, L. 2014: 12; this catalogue (by implication).
  • Junior synonym of mauritanica: Schifani & Alicata, 2023: 60.
  • Distribution: Algeria, Morocco.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 70, catalogue)
• Cagniant, H. 1996a. Les Aphaenogaster du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): clé et catalogue des espèces. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (N.S.) 32: 67-85.
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 94: 1-94 + 7 (page 58, worker described)
• Salata, S., Borowiec, L. 2018. Redescription of Aphaenogaster muschtaidica Emery, 1908 with a key to gibbosa species group. Asian Myrmecology 10, e010002, pp. 1-15 (DOI 10.20362/am.010002).
• Schifani, E., Alicata, A. 2023. Nomenclatural changes on some Mediterranean Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853 taxa (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa, 5277(1), 59–70 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5277.1.2).
• 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).