Aphaenogaster weulersseae

Aphaenogaster weulersseae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species group:	testaceopilosa
Species:	A. weulersseae
Binomial name
Aphaenogaster weulersseae Cagniant, 1989

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.

Nomenclature

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

• weulersseae. Aphaenogaster weulersseae Cagniant, 1989: 113, figs. 1-4 (w.q.m.) MOROCCO.
  • Type-material: >30 syntype workers, >5 syntype queens, >25 syntype males.
  • [Note: 30 workers, 1 queen are referred to as syntypes, while 4 queens and 25 males are referred to as ‘plesiotypes’, and an unnumbered series of workers, queens and males are referred to as paratypes, but no holotype is designated. All specimens are regarded as syntypes here.]
  • Type-locality: 30 workers, 1 queen Morocco: Jebel Bouqbou, above Maison Forestière de Koumch, 7 km. “as a bird flies” from Zawat ech Cheikh (between Beni Mellan and Khaifra), 1600 m., 7.v.1988 (no collector’s name; presumably H. Cagniant), 4 queens, 25 males with same data but vi.-vii.1988, unnumbered series of workers, queens males with same data but from “another colony at the same locality, ca 1400 m.”
  • Type-depositories: HCPC, MNHN.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 74; Cagniant, 1996a: 79; Cagniant, 2006a: 196; Borowiec, L. 2014: 20.
  • Distribution: Morocco.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 74, 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. 1989a. Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. Description des trois castes d'Aphaenogaster weulersseae n. sp.; notes biologiques et écologiques; étude comparée de trois populations (Hym. Formicoidea Myrmicidae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 94: 113-125. (page 113, figs. 1-4 worker, queen, male described)
• Cantone S. 2017. Winged Ants, The Male, Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the World, Behavioral ecology of mating flight (self-published).
• 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).
• Schifani, E., Alicata, A., Borowiec, L., García, F., Gentile, V., Gómez, K., Nalini, E., Rigato, F., Schär, S., Scupola, A., Vila, R., Menchetti, M. 2023. Unrecognized for centuries: distribution and sexual caste descriptions of the West European Aphaenogaster species of the subterranea group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1153, 141–156 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1153.98297).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Cagniant, H. "Liste actualisee des fourmis du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 193-200.