Aphaenogaster araneoides

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.

Castes
Longino & Cover (2004) reported that queens are ergatoid.

Nomenclature

 * . Aphaenogaster araneoides Emery, 1890b: 48, pl. 5, fig. f8 (w.) COSTA RICA.
 * [Also described as new by Emery, 1894k: 54.]
 * Borgmeier, 1949: 206 (m.); Longino & Cover, 2004: 8 (ergatoid q.).
 * Combination in Aphaenogaster (Ischnomyrmex): Forel, 1899c: 60;
 * combination in Stenamma (Ischnomyrmex): Forel, 1907e: 4;
 * combination in Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma): Emery, 1915d: 71.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 98; Forel, 1899c: 60; Forel, 1907e: 4; Emery, 1915d: 71; Emery, 1921f: 65; Borgmeier, 1949: 206; Kempf, 1972a: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 68; Longino & Cover, 2004: 8; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 257; Mackay & Dash, 2016: 5; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 202 (redescription).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * DeMarco B. B., and A. I. Cognato. 2015. Phylogenetic analysis of Aphaenogaster supports the resurrection of Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 1–10.
 * Emery C. 1890. Studii sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 22: 38-8
 * Emery C. 1894. Estudios sobre las hormigas de Costa Rica. Anales del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica 1888-1889: 45-64.
 * Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
 * Forel A. 1907. Formiciden aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg. II. Teil. Neueingänge seit 1900. Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hambg. 24: 1-20.
 * INBio Collection (via Gbif)
 * Longino J. T. and Cover S. 2004. A revision of the Aphaenogaster phalangium complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 655: 1-12
 * Longino J. T., and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient. Ecosphere 2(3): 16pp.
 * Longino J. et al. ADMAC project. Accessed on March 24th 2017 at https://sites.google.com/site/admacsite/
 * Mackay W., and S. T. Dash. 2016. A revision of the phalangium species complex of the ant genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Transactions American Entomological Society 142: 1-22.
 * McGlynn, T.P., J.R. Hoover, G.S. Jasper, M.S. Kelly, A.M. Polis, C.M. Spangler and B.J. Watson. 2002. Resource Heterogeneity Affects Demography of the Costa Rican Ant Aphaenogaster Araneoides. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18 (2) :231-244
 * Olson D. M. 1991. A comparison of the efficacy of litter sifting and pitfall traps for sampling leaf litter ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in a tropical wet forest, Costa Rica. Biotropica 23(2): 166-172.
 * Santschi F. 1931. Fourmis de Cuba et de Panama. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro). 1: 265-282.