Anochetus ghilianii

This is a well-known species of southern Spain and Morocco. It has a subterranean lifestyle (Tinaut 1989).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Gibraltar, Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, Spain.

Nomenclature

 *  ghilianii. Odontomachus ghilianii Spinola, 1851b: 55 (w.) SPAIN. [Also described as new by Spinola, 1853: 71.] Emery, 1909c: 376 (q.m.); Tinaut, et al. 2011: 161 (q.). Combination in Anochetus: Mayr, 1861: 54. Senior synonym of cameroni: Brown, 1964d: 214. See also: Brown, 1978c: 598.
 * cameroni. Anochetus cameroni Forel, 1915c: 352 (w.) BRAZIL. Junior synonym of ghilianii: Brown, 1964d: 214.

Taxonomic Notes
Brown (1964) notes that while the type locality for A. cameroni was given by Forel (1915) as "Cap Saint-Roque", Brazil, this is apparently in error; the true type locality is probably San Roque, Spain, near Gibraltar. Brown treated A. cameroni as a junior synonym of A. ghilianii. Forel had suggested a close relationship between these two species, stating that they differed in the shape of the petiolar scale and width of the head. However these differences are apparently of little taxonomic significance and the two taxa are considered to belong to a single species.