Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853 valid feminine
Aphaenogaster Mayr, 1853c: 107 Type-species: Aphaenogaster sardoa, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 270.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Aphaenogaster catalogues

Roger, 1863b: 29; Mayr, 1863a: 395 (Atta); Emery & Forel, 1879: 461 (Europe); Cresson, 1887: 260 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 98; Emery, 1921c: 56, 61, 64, 65, 66 (Aphaenogaster, Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma), Aphaenogaster (Nystalomyrma), Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma), Aphaenogaster (Planimyrma)); Wheeler, 1922: 1016, 1029 (Malagasy Aphaenogaster, Brunella); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 131 (Asia); Smith, 1951c: 795 (North America Aphaenogaster); Kempf, 1972b: 22 (Neotropical Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma)); Smith, 1979: 1359 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 54 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 8 (Australia); Brandão, 1991: 326 (Neotropical); Bolton, 1995b: 68; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 198 (Malagasy checklist).

Genus Aphaenogaster references

Mayr, 1855: 466 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1861: 66 (Europe species key, as Atta); Mayr, 1865: 19 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 92 (diagnosis); André, 1874c: 195 (Europe species key); Forel, 1874: 74 (Switzerland species key); André, 1883b: 348 (Europe, Algeria species key); Mayr, 1886d: 443 (U.S.A. species key); Emery, 1888: 531 (Aphaenogaster (Ischnomyrmex) species key); Nasonov, 1889: 74 (Russia species key); Forel, 1903a: 693 (India, Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 270 (India, Sri Lanka, Burma species key); Ruzsky, 1905b: 714 (Russian Empire species key); Emery, 1908d: 310 (Palaearctic species key); Bondroit, 1910: 495 (Belgium species key); Emery, 1916a: 132 (Italy species key); Wheeler, 1916r: 585 (U.S.A., Connecticut species key); Wheeler, 1916n: 213 (Australia species); Bondroit, 1918: 156 (France, Belgium species key); Emery, 1921c: 55 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Emery, 1921c: 56, 61, 64, 65, 66 (Aphaenogaster, Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma), Aphaenogaster (Nystalomyrma), Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma), Aphaenogaster (Planimyrma), Novomessor diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 680 (subgenera key); Santschi, 1933d: 389 (Aphaenogaster (Aphaenogaster) taxonomy); Menozzi, 1939a: 296 (Himalaya, Tibet species key); Stitz, 1939: 112 (Germany species key); Kratochvíl, 1941b: 81 (Central Europe species key); Novák & Sadil, 1941: 81 (Central Europe species key); Cole, 1942: 363 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Buren, 1944a: 284 (U.S.A., Iowa species key); Creighton, 1950a: 140 (Nearctic species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953b: 54, 63 (larval diagnosis, Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma), Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma)); Smith, 1961b: 218 (New Guinea species key); Gregg, 1963: 336 (U.S.A., Colorado species key); Bernard, 1967a: 128 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Arnol'di, 1976b: 1023 (former U.S.S.R. species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977a: 583, 584 (larval diagnosis, Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma), Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma)); Kutter, 1977c: 77 (Switzerland species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 536 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978: 79 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Allred, 1982: 439 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Gösswald, 1985: 298 (Germany species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 35 (U.S.A., Nevada species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 269 (Balkans species key); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Dlussky et al., 1990: 211 (Turkmenistan species key); Ogata, 1991b: 83 (diagnosis, Japan); Morisita et al., 1992: 15 (Japan species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 107 (Bulgaria species key); Schulz, 1994a: 425 (Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma), partial key); Arakelian, 1994: 29 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 110 (China species key); Umphrey, 1996: 557 (North America Aphaenogaster fulva complex key); Cagniant, 1996a: 67 (Morocco species key); Seifert, 1996b: 156 (Central Europe species key); Dlussky, 1997a: 57 (in Baltic amber genera key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 13 (Portugal species key); Shattuck, 1999: 126 (Australia synopsis); Park & Kim, 2000a: 108 (Korea species key); Zhou, 2001a: 142 (China, Guangxi species key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 60 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Longino & Cover, 2004: 1 (Aphaenogaster phalangium complex revision); Radchenko, 2005b: 192 (North Korea species key); Seifert, 2007: 144 (North and Central Europe species key); Shattuck, 2008a: 27 (Australia, all species revision, key); Terayama, 2009: 164 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 144 (south-western Australia species key); Eguchi et al., 2011: 11 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Kiran & Alipanah, 2013: 49 (Iran species key); Cagniant & Galkowski, 2013: 179 (Morocco species, emended key); Boer, 2013: 62, 63 (Europe Aphaenogaster, Aphaenogaster testaceopilosa group keys); Borowiec & Salata, 2014a: 42 (Mediterranean Aphaenogaster cecconii group revision, key); Demarco & Cognato, 2015: 1 (phylogeny); Salata & Borowiec, 2016: 194 (Aphaenogaster cecconii group key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 197 (diagnosis); Radchenko, 2016: 166 (Ukraine species key); Mackay & Dash, 2016: 3 (Aphaenogaster phalangium complex key, revision); Cantone, 2017: 185 (brief male diagnosis); Sharaf et al., 2018: 17 (Arabia species key); Salata & Borowiec, 2018a: 12 (Aphaenogaster gibbosa group key); Gómez et al., 2018: 221 (Iberian species key); Bračko et al., 2019: 105 (Aphaenogaster graeca complex key); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 799 (Colombia species key); Jessen, 2020: 21 (Oligocene diagnosis); Csősz et al., 2021: 15 (Malagasy, all species revision, key); Salata et al., 2021: 300 (Aphaenogaster splendida species group key); Schifani et al., 2021: 21 (Aphaenogaster crocea group); Heterick, 2021: 156 (Western Australia species key); Schifani et al., 2022: 634 (phylogeny, West-Palearctic species groups), 636 (new species groups classification); Schifani et al., 2023: 141 (distribution, sexual caste descriptions of west European Aphaenogaster subterranea group species), 145 (male diagnosis), 147 (male key, queen diagnosis), 149 (queen key); Kirchner et al., 2023: 77 (Aphaenogaster mariae natural history and colony demographics); Zięcina et al., 2024: 237 (Aphaenogaster subterranea species group revision), 240 (Aphaenogaster subterranea species group synopsis), 241 (Aphaenogaster subterranea species group worker key); Salata et al., 2024: 5 (Aphaenogaster graeca species group key); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 330 (Malagasy region male diagnosis); Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 16 (diagnosis, key to Greece species).

Citations

Extant: 205 valid species, 12 valid subspecies

Fossil: 14 valid species

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