Aphaenogaster tinauti

Aphaenogaster tinauti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species group:	testaceopilosa
Species:	A. tinauti
Binomial name
Aphaenogaster tinauti Cagniant, 1992 Specimen Labels

At a Glance

• Brachypterous Queen

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 32.249974° to 31.05°.

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.

Castes

Queen described as brachypterous (Cagniant 1992)

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Aphaenogaster tinauti. Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0913796. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MNHN, Paris, France.

Syntype of Aphaenogaster tinauti. Male (alate). Specimen code casent0913797. Photographer Will Ericson, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MNHN, Paris, France.

Nomenclature

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

• tinauti. Aphaenogaster tinauti Cagniant, 1992b: 365, figs. 1, 3, 5-11 (w.q.m.) MOROCCO.
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 73; Cagniant, 1996a: 79; Cagniant, 2006a: 196; Borowiec, L. 2014: 20.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 73, 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. 1992d. Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. Aphaenogaster tinauti n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. Evol. Zool. 117: 365-374. (page 365, figs. 1, 3, 5-11 worker, brachypterous queen, 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).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Cagniant, H. "Contribution à la connaissance des fourmis marocaines. Aphaenogaster tinauti n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)." Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France Évolution et Zoologie 117 (1992): 365-374.
• Cagniant, H. "Liste actualisee des fourmis du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8 (2006): 193-200.