Aphaenogaster smithi

Aphaenogaster smithi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species:	A. smithi
Binomial name
Aphaenogaster smithi Gregg, 1949 Type Specimen Label

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to US Aphaenogaster species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 35.05° to 29.255°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Nearctic Region: United States (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.

• smithi. Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) boulderensis subsp. smithi Gregg, R.E. 1949b: 171 (w.) U.S.A. (New Mexico).
  • Type-material: holotype worker, 37 paratype workers.
  • Type-locality: holotype U.S.A.: New Mexico, Tularosa Basin, Malpais Lava Beds, nr Carrizozo, 27.vii.1947 (C.P. Stroud); paratypes with same data.
  • Type-depositories: FMNH (holotype); FMNH, MCZC, USNM (paratypes).
  • Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 401 (q.).
  • Subspecies of boulderensis: Smith, M.R. 1951a: 796; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1360; Bolton, 1995b: 73; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 73.
  • Junior synonym of boulderensis: Snelling, R.R. & George, 1979: 70; Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 11.
  • Status as species: Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 400 (redescription).
  • Distribution: U.S.A.

Type Material

• Holotype, worker, Valley of Fires (as the Malpais Lava Beds), near Carrizozo, New Mexico, United States, 33°41′0″N 105°55′0″W, 27 July 1947, C.P. Stroud, Field Museum of Natural History.
• Paratype, 38 workers, Valley of Fires (as the Malpais Lava Beds), near Carrizozo, New Mexico, United States, 33°41′0″N 105°55′0″W, 27 July 1947, C.P. Stroud, Field Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Natural History, Museum of Comparative Zoology.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 73, 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).
• Gregg, R. E. 1949b. A new ant from southwestern United States (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 51: 171-174. (page 171, worker described)
• Mackay, W.P., Mackay, E. 2017. The New World Gypsy Ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lambert Academic Publishing, Mauritius. 605 pp.
• Shattuck, S.O., Cover, S. 2016. Taxonomy of some little-understood North American ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4175: 10–22 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.2).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Gregg R. E. 1949. A new ant from southwestern United States (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 51: 171-174.
• Mackay W. P., and E. E. Mackay. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp.
• Van Pelt, A. 1983. Ants of the Chisos Mountains, Texas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) . Southwestern Naturalist 28:137-142.