Aphaenogaster dulcineae

Aphaenogaster dulcineae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species group:	pallida
Species:	A. dulcineae
Binomial name
Aphaenogaster dulcineae Emery, 1924 Specimen Labels

Identification

A member of the Aphaenogaster pallida-group.

Keys including this Species

• Key to Aphaenogaster workers of Europe
• Key to Iberian Peninsula Aphaenogaster species
• West European Aphaenogaster subterranea group species (queens and males)

Distribution

Schifani & Alicata (2023) - The Maghrebian populations of the pallida group hitherto considered to represent Aphaenogaster foreli should be attributed to Aphaenogaster dulcineae.

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 42.4484° to 36.087222°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: France, Gibraltar, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Portugal, Spain (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.

Nomenclature

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

• dulcineae. Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) pallida var. dulcineae Emery, 1924c: 164.
  • [First available use of Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) pallida st. subterraneoides var. dulcineae Santschi, 1919e: 245 (w.m.) SPAIN; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
  • Santschi, 1932d: 344 (q.).
  • As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Menozzi, 1922b: 325; Finzi, 1930a: 154; Santschi, 1932d: 344.
  • Subspecies of subterranea: Donisthorpe, 1926a: 6.
  • Subspecies of pallida: Ceballos, 1956: 298; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 53.
  • Status as species: Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 59; Collingwood, 1978: 79 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 69; Poldi, et al. 1995: 3; Espadaler, 1997b: 29; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 13 (in key); Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 486; Borowiec, L. 2014: 11; Lebas, et al. 2016: 260; Gómez, et al. 2018: 221 (in key).

References

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1971c. Catalogo delle specie di Formicidae d'Italia (Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia X). Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 50: 5-287 (page 53, subspecies of pallida)
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25(1-2): 1-340.
• Catarineu, C., Barberá, G.G., Reyes-López, J.L. 2018. Zoogeography of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of southeastern Iberian Peninsula. Sociobiology 65, 383-396 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v65i3.2822).
• Collingwood, C. A.; Yarrow, I. H. H. 1969. A survey of Iberian Formicidae (Hymenoptera). EOS. Rev. Esp. Entomol. 44: 53-101 (page 59, raised to species)
• Collingwood, C.A., Prince, A. 1998. A guide to ants of Continental Portugal (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia. Supl nº5, pp 49.
• Emery, C. 1924c. Formiche di Spagna raccolte dal Prof. Filippo Silvestri. Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agrar. R. Sc. Super. Agric. 17: 164-171 (page 164, worker, male described)
• Gomez, K., Martinez, D., Espadaler, X. 2018. Phylogeny of the ant genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of a new species. Sociobiology 65(2): 215-224 (doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v65i2.2099).
• Santschi, F. 1919e. Fourmis d'Espagne et des Canaries. Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 19: 241-248 (page 245, First available use of Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) pallida st. subterraneoides var. dulcineae; unavailable name)
• Santschi, F. 1932f. Études sur quelques Attomyrma paléarctiques. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 15: 338-346 (page 344, queen described)
• Schifani, E., Alicata, A. 2023. Nomenclatural changes on some Mediterranean Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853 taxa (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa, 5277(1), 59–70 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5277.1.2).
• Schifani, E., Alicata, A., Borowiec, L., García, F., Gentile, V., Gómez, K., Nalini, E., Rigato, F., Schär, S., Scupola, A., Vila, R., Menchetti, M. 2023. Unrecognized for centuries: distribution and sexual caste descriptions of the West European Aphaenogaster species of the subterranea group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1153, 141–156 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1153.98297).
• 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

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