Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Aphaenogaster
Aphaenogaster gibbosa (Latreille)

Aphaenogaster (Aphaenogaster) gibbosa (Latreille)

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location France (Formica gibbosa Latr.) Brive, under stones; no type images on Antweb (April, 2016)
junior synonyms
striola (Atta striola Roger, 1859: 252, worker & male; synonymy by Emery, 1869b: 17, queen) type location Spain; no type images on Antweb (April 2016)
barcinensis (Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) gibbosa var. barcinensis, Menozzi, 1922b: 325; worker & queen; synonymy by Collingwood, 1978: 67) type location Spain; no type images on Antweb (April 2016)
laevior (Aphaenogaster striola var laevior, Forel 1892G; 453, worker) type location Spain; see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0907684
chorassanica (Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) gibbosa subsp. chorassanica, Arnol'di, 1968: 1805, all forms; synonymy by Dlussky, Sotunov & Zabelin, 1990: 212) type location Turkmenia; no type images on Antweb (April 2016)
muschtadica (Aphaenogaster  subterranea gibbosa muschtadica,  Ruzky, 1905b: 719; Aphaenogaster gibbosa subsp muschtadica, Emery, 1908b: 334) type location Russia; no type images on Antweb (April 2016)
subspecies
fiorii (Aphaenogaster gibbosa subsp fiorii, Emery, 1915a: 258, worketr) type location Italy, https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0904175
homonyma (Aphaenogaster gibbosa subsp homonyma Emery, 1921f: 58, worker) type location Tunisia; see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0904172


Latreille's (1798) description is at {original description} Bondroit's (1910) description is at {original description}


{Aphaenogaster holtzi} The photomontage of the laevior type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0907684.
The subspecies homonyma appears almost identical to laevior but fiorii is yellow-brown and with much reduced sculpture on head and alitrunk.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Aphaenogaster gibbosa
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Ghatei
35
22.vi.2014
37.98°N
49.24°E
58 m
Shaft, Guilan
hand collected
park, under soil
0935h
1
{album}
Aphaenogaster gibbosa
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Borjali
17
17.vii.2014
37°1297 N
49°5842 E
9 m
Lahijan
hand collected
field, on ground, 1115h

1
{album}
Aphaenogaster gibbosa
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Borjali
19
6.ix.2014
36°9736 N
50°5700 E
216 m
Chaboksar
hand collected
forest, on soil, 1045h

1
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{Aphaenogaster gibbosa} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collector M Ghatei (35).


{Aphaenogaster gibbosa} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collector F Borjali (12).

© 2016, 2017 - Brian Taylor CBiol FRSB FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

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