Aphaenogaster obsidiana

Identification
A member of the Aphaenogaster obsidiana-group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Russian Federation, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Atta obsidiana Mayr, 1861: 67 (diagnosis in key) (w.) RUSSIA (“aus den kaukasischen Alpen”).
 * Ruzsky, 1905b: 725 (q.); Karavaiev, 1926b: 98 (m.).
 * Combination in Aphaenogaster: Roger, 1863b: 29; Ruzsky, 1905b: 723;
 * combination in Stenamma (Aphaenogaster): Ruzsky, 1902d: 26;
 * combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921f: 58.
 * Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 29; Mayr, 1863: 396; André, 1874: 196 (in key); Emery & Forel, 1879: 463; André, 1883b: 364 (in key); Nasonov, 1889: 38; Dalla Torre, 1893: 103; Ruzsky, 1902d: 26; Ruzsky, 1905b: 723; Emery, 1908c: 335; Forel, 1913d: 428; Emery, 1921f: 58; Karavaiev, 1926b: 97; Finzi, 1930a: 155; Finzi, 1939c: 153; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 50; Arnol'di, 1976b: 1023 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 536 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 270 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 71; Petrov, 2006: 90 (in key); Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 137; Karaman, M.G. 2011b: 19; Legakis, 2011: 7; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 465; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 16; Kiran, et al. 2013: 49 (in key); Borowiec, L. 2014: 15; Lebas, et al. 2016: 258.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Borowiec L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
 * Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2012. Ants of Greece - Checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 23(4): 461-563.
 * Dubovikoff D. A., and Z. M. Yusupov. 2018. 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.
 * Finzi B. 1930. Contributo allo studio degli Aphaenogaster paleartici (Formicidae-Myrmicinae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 62: 151-156.
 * Ghahari H., and C. A. Collingwood. 2013. A study on the ants (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Formicidae) from Western Iran. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica 48 (1): 155164.
 * Gratiashvili N., Barjadze S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23: 130-146.
 * Karavaiev V. 1926. Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna des Kaukasus, nebst einigen Bemerkungen über andere palaearktische Formen. Konowia 5: 93-109.
 * Kiran K., H. Alipanah, and O. Paknia. 2013. A new species of the ant genus Aphaenogaster Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Asian Myrmecology 5: 45-51.
 * Petrov I. Z., and C. A. Collingwood. 1992. Survey of the myrmecofauna (Formicidae, Hymenoptera) of Yugoslavia. Archives of Biological Sciences (Belgrade) 44: 79-91.