Aphaenogaster senilis disjuncta

Aphaenogaster senilis disjuncta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species group:	testaceopilosa
Species:	A. senilis
Subspecies:	A. senilis disjuncta
Trinomial name
Aphaenogaster senilis disjuncta Santschi, 1933

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 34.025278° to 31.633333°.

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.

• disjuncta. Aphaenogaster senilis var. disjuncta Santschi, 1933c: 397, figs. 3, 36 (w.m.) MOROCCO.
  • Type-material: 3 syntype males.
  • Type-locality: Morocco: Rabat, x.1930 (Otin).
  • Type-depository: NHMB.
  • Subspecies of senilis: Santschi, 1936c: 200; Santschi, 1939c: 1; Bolton, 1995b: 69.
  • Distribution: Morocco.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 69, catalogue)

• Santschi, F. 1933d. Étude sur le sous-genre Aphaenogaster Mayr. Rev. Suisse Zool. 40: 389-408 (page 397, figs. 3, 36 worker, male described)
• 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).