Aphaenogaster sicardi

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

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 32.249974° to 32.249974°.

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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Aphaenogaster sicardi. Male (alate). Specimen code casent0913794. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MNHN, Paris, France.

Nomenclature

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

• sicardi. Aphaenogaster sicardi Cagniant, 1990d: 443, figs. 1, 2 (w.q.m.) MOROCCO.
  • Type-material: >30 syntype workers, >3 syntype queens, >20 syntype males.
  • Type-locality: 30 workers, 2 queens, 20 males Morocco: Middle Atlas, Jebel Bou Iblane, 90 km. SE Fès “as a bird flies”, 60 km. S Taza, 1975 m., 18.v.1987, vii.1987 (H. Cagniant), workers, queens and males (numbers not stated) from “another colony, same locality”, workers (number not stated) from “a third colony, Bou Iblane, 2100 m.”
  • Type-depository: HCPC, MNHN.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 72; Cagniant, 1996a: 76; Borowiec, L. 2014: 18.
  • Distribution: Morocco.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 72, catalogue)
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Cagniant, H. 1990d. Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. Aphaenogaster sicardi n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Sect. A Zool. Biol. Écol. Anim. (4) 12: 443-453. (page 443, figs. 1, 2 worker, queen, 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).