Aphaenogaster rupestris
Aphaenogaster rupestris | |
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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. rupestris |
Binomial name | |
Aphaenogaster rupestris Forel, 1909 |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 35.716667° to 30.911944°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality), Morocco.
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. |
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- rupestris. Aphaenogaster rupestris Forel, 1909e: 379 (w.) ALGERIA.
- Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “two nests”).
- Type-locality: Algeria: El Kantara, 9-19.iii.1909 (A. Forel).
- Type-depository: MHNG.
- Forel, 1913d: 428 (m.); Cagniant, 1969b: 110 (q.m.).
- Status as species: Forel, 1913d: 428; Emery, 1921f: 62; Santschi, 1933c: 390; Cagniant, 1964: 86; Cagniant, 1969b: 109 (redescription); Cagniant, 1970a: 415; Bolton, 1995b: 72; Borowiec, L. 2014: 17.
- Distribution: Algeria.
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.
- Cagniant, H. 1969c. Sur deux Aphaenogaster rares d'Algérie (Hyménoptères Formicidae, Myrmicinae). Insectes Soc. 16: 103-114. (page 110, queen described)
- Forel, A. 1909k. Études myrmécologiques en 1909. Fourmis de Barbarie et de Ceylan. Nidification des Polyrhachis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 45: 369-407 (page 379, worker described)
- Forel, A. 1913d. Fourmis de la faune méditerranéenne récoltées par MM. U. et J. Sahlberg. Rev. Suisse Zool. 21: 427-438 (page 428, 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. Description des trois castes d'Aphaenogaster torossiani n. sp. et notes biologiques (Hym. Formicoidea Myrmicidae)." Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 92 (1988): 241-250.
- Cagniant, H. "Sur deux Aphaenogaster rares d'Algérie (Hyménoptères Formicidae, Myrmicinae)." Insectes Sociaux 16 (1969): 103-114.
- Cagniant, H. "Étude de quelques fourmis marocaines. Statistique provisoire des Formicidae du Maroc." Bulletin de la Société d' Histoire naturelle de l' Afrique du Nord 53 (1964): 83-118.
- Cagniant, H. Les peuplements de fourmis des forêts algériennes: écologie, biocénotique, essai biologique. Universite de Toulouse, 1973.
- Forel A. 1909. Études myrmécologiques en 1909. Fourmis de Barbarie et de Ceylan. Nidification des Polyrhachis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 45: 369-407.