Aphaenogaster smythiesii

Aphaenogaster smythiesii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species:	A. smythiesii
Binomial name
Aphaenogaster smythiesii (Forel, 1902) Specimen Labels

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 34.583333° to 30.65861°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (type locality), Nepal, Pakistan.
Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, China, Republic of Korea.

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.

• smythiesii. Stenamma (Aphaenogaster) smythiesii Forel, 1902c: 222 (w.q.m.) INDIA (Uttarakhand; and no state data).
  • Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated).
  • Type-localities: India: Himalaya, 8000-9000 ft (Smythies), India: Mussories (= Mussoorie) (G.A.J. Rothney), India: NW Himalaya, Katta-Pum (J. Wood-Mason), India: Deoban (Smythies).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Imai, 1971: 137 (k.); Imai, et al. 1984: 6 (k.).
  • Combination in Aphaenogaster: Bingham, 1903: 276;
  • combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921f: 59.
  • Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 695; Bingham, 1903: 276; Forel, 1904c: 25; Forel, 1906b: 86; Emery, 1908c: 332; Emery, 1921f: 59; Wheeler, W.M. 1928c: 9; Wheeler, W.M. 1928d: 101; Mukerjee, 1930: 151; Menozzi, 1939a: 296; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 132; Collingwood, 1961a: 57; Pisarski, 1967: 379; Collingwood, 1970: 374; Arnol'di, 1976b: 1024 (in key); Wang, M., 1992: 679; Wu, J. & Wang, 1992: 1304; Morisita, et al. 1992: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 73; Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 114; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 301; Zhou, 2001b: 144; Zhang, W. & Zheng, 2002: 219; Zhou, 2006: 585; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 40; Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 33; Rasheed, et al. 2019: 431.
  • Distribution: Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan.

Description

Karyotype

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• n = 11, 2n = 22; 34, karyotype = 20SM+2M; 16M+18A (India; Japan) (Imai, 1969; Imai, 1971; Imai et al., 1984).

References

• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 276, combination in Aphaenogaster)
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 73, catalogue)
• Dubovikoff, D.A., Yusupov, Z.M. 2017. Family Formicidae - Ants. In Belokobylskij S. A. and A. S. Lelej: Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Proceedingss of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 6: 197-210.
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 94: 1-94 + 7 (page 59, combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma))
• Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10: 165-249 (page 222, worker, queen, male described)
• Imai, H. T. 1971. Karyological studies of Japanese ants II. Species differentiation in Aphaenogaster; with special regard to their morphology, distribution and chromosomes. Mushi 44: 137-151 (page 137, see also)
• Imai, H. T.; Baroni Urbani, C.; Kubota, M.; Sharma, G. P.; Narasimhanna, M. H.; Das, B. C.; 1984. Karyological survey of Indian ants. Jpn. J. Genet. 59: 1-32 (page 6, karyotype described)
• Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).
• Rasheed, M.T., Bodlah, I., Fareen, A.G., Wachkoo, A.A., Huang, X., Akbar, S.A. 2019. A checklist of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Pakistan. Sociobiology 66(3), 426-439 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4330).
• Subedi, I.P., Budha, P.B., Bharti, H., Alonso, L. 2020. An updated checklist of Nepalese ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1006, 99–136 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1006.58808).
• Wu, J. & Wang, C. 1992. Formicidae (pp. 1301-1320). In Peng, J. et al. Iconography of Forest Insects in Hunan, China. Forest Bureau of Hunan Province: 1473 pp. Hunan Scientific and Technical Publishing House.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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• Collingwood C.A. 1970. Formicidae (Hymenopter: Aculeata) of Nepal. Himalaya Khumbu Himal, 3: 371-388.
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