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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Aphaenogaster - Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) syriaca (Emery)

Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) syriaca (Emery)

return to key  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) - no images on Antweb (March 2019).
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.


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

Egypt records - Mohamed et al (2001, illustrated); who noted the head is normal nearly as long as broad, with strong sculpturation; the propodeum has acute spines. As drawn their specimen(s) was noticeably smaller than the type (below).

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

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