Aphaenogaster miniata

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Aphaenogaster miniata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Aphaenogaster
Species group: testaceopilosa
Species: A. miniata
Binomial name
Aphaenogaster miniata
Cagniant, 1990

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 31.25° to 31.216667°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
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.

  • miniata. Aphaenogaster miniata Cagniant, 1990e: 144, figs. 1-4 (w.q.m.) MOROCCO.
    • Type-material: 30 syntype workers, 7 syntype queens, 28 syntype males.
    • Type-locality: Morocco: Marrakech Prov., Agadir Ait Yous, border of Oued Amezmiz, nr Oued Amezmiz village, 950 m., v.1987 (H. Cagniant).
    • Type-depositories: HCPC, MNHN.
    • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 71; Cagniant, 1996a: 78; Cagniant, 2006a: 196; Borowiec, L. 2014: 15.
    • 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 71, catalogue)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Cagniant, H. "Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. - Répartition et variations géographiques d'Aphaenogaster wilsoni Cagniant, 1988 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae)." Journal of African Zoology 105 (1991): 49-61.
  • Cagniant, H. "Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines: Aphaenogaster miniata n. sp. Description des trois castes, populations et justification de son statut de bonne espèce (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)." Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (n.s.)7 (1990): 143-154.
  • Cagniant, H. "Liste actualisee des fourmis du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 193-200.