Aphaenogaster striativentris

Aphaenogaster striativentris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species group:	gibbosa
Species:	A. striativentris
Binomial name
Aphaenogaster striativentris Forel, 1895 Specimen Labels

Identification

A member of the Aphaenogaster gibbosa-group.

Keys including this Species

• Key to Aphaenogaster gibbosa group workers
• Key to Aphaenogaster workers of Europe
• Key to Iberian Peninsula Aphaenogaster species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 37.470833° to 36.146305°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Iberian Peninsula, Spain (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.

Biology

Morphology

Castro et al. (2016) described a stridulatory structure in this species. They used SEM photographs to discern the details they reported.

The pars stridens is oval, but in this case it is wider than long, with a length of 0.09 mm and a width of 0.14 mm. The striation is thinner than the values obtained for Aphaenogaster senilis by Álvarez (2009), with a ridge average width of 0.90 μm. Pillars are more prominent than in A. senilis but, as in other species of Aphaenogaster, they are scarcely conspicuous and have a more diffuse sculpture.

Nomenclature

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

• striativentris. Aphaenogaster striola r. striativentris Forel, 1895d: 228 (w.) SPAIN.
  • Type-material: neotype worker (by designation of Tinaut & Jiménez-Rojas, 1991: 120).
  • Type-locality: neotype Spain: Málaga, Sierra del Rey, 22.x.1986 (no collector’s name).
  • [Note: original holotype data: Spain: Seville (A. Cabrera y Diaz) (lost).]
  • Type-depository: MHNG (neotype).
  • Tinaut & Jiménez-Rojas, 1991: 118 (q.m.).
  • Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921f: 58.
  • Subspecies of gibbosa: Emery, 1908c: 334; Emery, 1921f: 58; Ceballos, 1956: 298.
  • Status as species: Collingwod & Yarrow, 1969: 60; Collingwood, 1978: 80 (in key); Tinaut & Jiménez-Rojas, 1991: 118 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 73; Borowiec, L. 2014: 19; Lebas, et al. 2016: 256; Salata & Borowiec, 2018a: 12 (in key); Gómez, et al. 2018: 221 (in key).
  • Distribution: Spain.

References

• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Castro, S., M. Alvarez, and M. L. Munguira. 2015. Morphology of the stridulatory organs of Iberian myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Italian Journal of Zoology. 82:387-397. doi:10.1080/11250003.2015.1038323
• Collingwood, C. A.; Yarrow, I. H. H. 1969. A survey of Iberian Formicidae (Hymenoptera). EOS. Rev. Esp. Entomol. 44: 53-101 (page 60, raised to species)
• Emery, C. 1908d. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) (Fortsetzung.) III. Die mit Aphaenogaster verwandte Gattungengruppe. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 1908: 305-338 (page 334, subspecies of gibbosa)
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 94: 1-94 + 7 (page 58, combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma))
• Forel, A. 1895e. Südpalaearctische Ameisen. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 9: 227-234 (page 228, worker described)
• Gomez, K., Martinez, D., Espadaler, X. 2018. Phylogeny of the ant genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of a new species. Sociobiology 65(2): 215-224 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v65i2.2099).
• Salata, S., Borowiec, L. 2018. Redescription of Aphaenogaster muschtaidica Emery, 1908 with a key to gibbosa species group. Asian Myrmecology 10, e010002, pp. 1-15 (DOI 10.20362/am.010002).
• 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).
• Tinaut, A., Ruano, F. 2021. Biogeography of Iberian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Diversity 13, 88. (doi:10.3390/d13020088).
• Tinaut, A.; Jiménez Rojas, J. 1991 [1990]. Redescripción de Aphaenogaster striativentris Forel, 1895 y consideraciones sobre su polimorfismo (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). EOS. Rev. Esp. Entomol. 66: 117-126 (page 118, queen, male described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Collingwood, C. A., and I. H. H. Yarrow. "A survey of Iberian Formicidae." EOS (Revista española de entomología) 44 (1969): 53-101.
• Gomez K., D. Martinez, and X. Espadaler. 2018. Phylogeny of the ant genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of a new species. Sociobiology 65: 215-224.
• Hernandez Cuba O., J. L. Perez-Bote, and J. M. Garcia Jimenez. 2006. Los formicidos (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) del Parque Natural de Cornaldo (suroeste de la Peninsula Iberica). Boletin Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 38: 356-358.
• Tinaut A. 2016. Ants of the Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Mountains Natural Park (Andalusia, Spain) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Boln. Asoc. esp. Ent., 40 (1-2): 125-159.
• Tinaut, A., and J. Jiménez Rojas. "Redescripción de Aphaenogaster striativentris Forel, 1895 y consideraciones sobre su polimorfismo (Hymenotera, Formicidae)." EOS (Revista española de entomología) 66 (2) (1991): 117-126.