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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Aphaenogaster - Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) phillipsi Wheeler & Mann

Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) phillipsi Wheeler & Mann

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Jordan (Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) phillipsi sp. nov., Wheeler & Mann, 1916: 168, illustrated, worker) Petra.

{Aphaenogaster phillipsi}Wheeler & Mann's (1916) description is at {original description}.

Egypt records - Mohamed et al (2001, illustrated); who comment on the elongated shape, notably of the head, and the faint longitudinal sculpturation on the head; and the propodeum with blunt spines - now thought to be a misidentification of a single worker of Aphaenogaster splendida [Mostafa Sharaf].
{Aphaenogaster phillipsi} Collated photograph (right) is of a cotype. The original photographs, together with enlarged images, are from the MCZ, Harvard University, website at - MCZ link.

See also the images at - http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0915438.
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