Trichomyrmex chobauti ajjer

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Trichomyrmex chobauti ajjer
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Trichomyrmex
Species group: destructor
Species: T. chobauti
Subspecies: T. chobauti ajjer
Trinomial name
Trichomyrmex chobauti ajjer
(Bernard, 1953)

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality).

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Countries Occupied

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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

Nomenclature

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

  • ajjer. Monomorium (Equesimessor) chobauti subsp. ajjer Bernard, 1953a: 165 (w.) ALGERIA.
    • Type-material: 10+ syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: 10 syntypes Algeria: Tassili des Ajjer, st. 12, wadi Isseyène, Ti’n Alkoum, 785 m., iii.-v.1949 (F. Bernard); other syntypes: “numerous workers, st. 13 – st. 37”.
    • Type-depository: MNHN.
    • Combination in Trichomyrmex: Ward, et al. 2015: 76.
    • Subspecies of chobauti: Ettershank, 1966: 87; Bolton, 1995b: 259.
    • Distribution: Algeria.

Description

References

  • Bernard, F. 1953a. Les fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Pp. 121-250 in: Bernard, F. (ed.) Mission scientifique au Tassili des Ajjer (1949). Volume I. Recherches zoologiques et médicales. Paris: P. Lechevalier, 302 pp. (page 165, worker described)
  • Ward, P.S., Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L., Schultz, T.R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40: 61–81 (doi:10.1111/syen.12090).