Contents References The Ants of Egypt
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Aphaenogaster - Aphaenogaster pallida (Nylander)

Aphaenogaster pallida (Nylander)

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   Type location Italy (Myrmica pallida, Nylander, 1849: 42, worker; Roger, 1859: 254, queen & male; in Aphaenogaster by Roger, 1863b: 29) Messina, Cel. Zeller - no type images on Antweb (April 2017) Radchneko (2007) reported specimens as held in the Finnish Museum of Natural History
subspecies
laurenti (Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) pallida Nyl. v. laurenti n. var. Santschi, 1939d: 69, worker & queen) from Algeria - see below.

 Nylander's (1849) description is at {original description}. Santschi's (1939d) description of laurenti is at {original description}.

{Aphaenogaster pallida laurenti} The photomontage of the laurenti type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913118.

{Aphaenogaster pallida} The photomontage of a fresh worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0280960.

{Aphenogaster pallida}From Egypt, what appears to be a match for palllida laurenti was illustrated by Savigny (Audouin, J.-V. 1825-27: Plate 20 Fig 16).
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