Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Aphaenogaster
Aphaenogaster syriaca Emery

Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) syriaca (Emery)

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Lebanon (Aphaenogaster gibbosa syriaca n., Emery, 1908c: 335, worker; raised to species Emery, 1915a: 258) - see below
junior synonym syria (Aphaenogaster Schmitzi var. syria n. var., Forel, 1910a: 12, worker, synonymy Emery, 1921f: 60), type location Syria, Houtaife, Gadeau de Kerville) - not on Antweb (June 2014).
subspecies schmitzi (Aphaenogaster Schmitzi n. sp., Forel, 1910a: 10, worker), type location Israel, Jerusalem, Schmitz - see below.

Note: Emery's (1921f) listing, under subgenus Attomyrna, appears to regard syria as a synonym but schmitzi as a variety.


Emery's (1908c) description is at {original description} Forel's (1910a) description of schmitizi and its variety syria is at {original description}

Reported from Palestine by Menozzi (1933b: 50), var. schmitzi, several workers from under a stone at Djenin; collector Dr F S Bodenheimer, 1922-1928.


{Aphaenogaster syriaca} The photomontage of a worker from the type collection is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904176


{Aphaenogaster syriaca} The photomontage of a syntype worker of schmitzi is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900458


Oxford University Museum specimens

Aphaenogaster syriaca
B Taylor det.
Iran
M Ghatei
36
18.viii.2014
37.12°N
50.13°E
135 m
SBame Sabz, Lahijan, Guilan
hand collected
foothill, on ground
1100h
1
{album}
Aphaenogaster syriaca
B Taylor det.
Iran
F Borjali
18
18.vii.2014
37°1669 N
50°1536 E
21 m
Langarud
hand collected
city, street, 1430h

1
{album}

{Aphaenogaster syriaca} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collector M Ghatei (36).


{Aphaenogaster syriaca} The photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collector F Borjali (18).

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