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Aphaenogaster phalangium
| Aphaenogaster phalangium | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
| Species: | A. phalangium |
| Binomial name | |
| Aphaenogaster phalangium Emery, 1890
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 18.26666667° to 8.433°.
| North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Colombia, Costa Rica (type locality), Honduras, Panama.
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.
- phalangium. Aphaenogaster phalangium Emery, 1890b: 47, pl. 5, figs. 6, 7 (w.m.) COSTA RICA.
- Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Longino & Cover, 2004: 10); paralectotype workers (number not stated).
- Type-locality: lectotype Costa Rica: Alajuela, 1889 (A. Alfaro); paralectotypes: with same data, Costa Rica: Jimenez, 1889 (A. Alfaro).
- [Note: the original syntype males were misidentified as conspecific; they are now determined as araneoides and excluded from the type-series (Longino & Cover, 2004: 10).]
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- [Also described as new by Emery, 1894k: 54.]
- Combination in Aphaenogaster (Ischnomyrmex): Forel, 1899c: 59;
- combination in Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma): Emery, 1915d: 71.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 104; Forel, 1899c: 59; Emery, 1915d: 71; Emery, 1921f: 65; Mann, 1922: 24; Kempf, 1972a: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 72; Longino & Cover, 2004: 10; Mackay & Dash, 2016: 8; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 353 (redescription); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 799.
- Distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 72, catalogue)
- 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).
- Emery, C. 1890c. Studii sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 22: 38-80 (page 47, pl. 5, figs. 6, 7 worker, male described)
- Emery, C. 1894l. Estudios sobre las hormigas de Costa Rica. An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica 1888- 1889: 45-64 (page 54, also described as new)
- Emery, C. 1915k. Definizione del genere Aphaenogaster e partizione di esso in sottogeneri. Parapheidole e Novomessor nn. gg. Rend. Sess. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna Cl. Sci. Fis. (n.s.) 19: 67-75 (page 71, combination in Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma))
- Forel, A. 1899e. Formicidae. [part]. Biol. Cent.-Am. Hym. 3: 57-80 (page 59, combination in Aphaenogaster (Ischnomyrmex))
- Longino, J. T. and Cover, S. 2004. A revision of the Aphaenogaster phalangium complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 655: 1-12 (page 6, senior synonym of inermis, nitidiventris, and canalis)
- Mackay, W.P., Dash, S.T. 2016. A revision of the phalangium species complex of the ant genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 142: 1-22.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
- Emery C. 1890. Studii sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 22: 38-8
- Emery C. 1894. Estudios sobre las hormigas de Costa Rica. Anales del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica 1888-1889: 45-64.
- Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
- Field Museum Collection, Chicago, Illinois (C. Moreau)
- Forel A. 1912. Formicides néotropiques. Part IV. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae Lep. (suite). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 20: 1-32.
- INBio Collection (via Gbif)
- Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
- Longino J. T. and Cover S. 2004. A revision of the Aphaenogaster phalangium complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 655: 1-12
- Longino J. et al. ADMAC project. Accessed on March 24th 2017 at https://sites.google.com/site/admacsite/
- Mackay W., and S. T. Dash. 2016. A revision of the phalangium species complex of the ant genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Transactions American Entomological Society 142: 1-22.
- Mann W. M. 1922. Ants from Honduras and Guatemala. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 61: 1-54.