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Aphaenogaster praenoda
| Aphaenogaster praenoda | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
| Species group: | testaceopilosa |
| Species: | A. praenoda |
| Binomial name | |
| Aphaenogaster praenoda Santschi, 1933
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Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 34.033333° to 33.593056°.
| 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. |
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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. |
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Biology
Castes
Images from AntWeb
     
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| Syntype of Aphaenogaster praenoda confinis. Male (alate). Specimen code casent0913121. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- praenoda. Aphaenogaster (Aphaenogaster) praenoda Santschi, 1933c: 398, figs. 1, 16, 30 (w.m.) MOROCCO.
- Type-material: 1 syntype worker, 5 syntype males.
- Type-locality: worker Morocco: Rabat (A. Théry), males Morocco: Rabat, iv.1928 (Otin).
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 72; Borowiec, L. 2014: 16 (see note in bibliography).
- Distribution: Morocco.
- Current subspecies: nominal plus confinis.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 72, catalogue)
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
- Santschi, F. 1933d. Étude sur le sous-genre Aphaenogaster Mayr. Rev. Suisse Zool. 40: 389-408 (page 398, figs. 1, 16, 30 worker, male described)
- 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).