Aphaenogaster lesbica

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Aphaenogaster lesbica Forel, 1913 junior synonym of current valid taxon Aphaenogaster subterranea (Latreille, 1798)

Aphaenogaster pallida var. lesbica Forel, 1913d: 429 (w.) GREECE. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: none given (U. & J. Sahlberg). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907690. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Type locality is presumably Greece: Lesbos I.

Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 59
Subspecies of Aphaenogaster pallida: Emery, 1921c: 59; Finzi, 1930a: 152.
Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 53; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 270 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 70; Petrov, 2006: 91 (in key); Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 41; Karaman, 2011b: 18; Legakis, 2011: 7; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 465; Borowiec, 2014: 14; Lebas et al., 2016: 260; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 42.
Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster subterranea: Zięcina et al., 2024: 256.

Obsolete combinations

Aphaenogaster pallida lesbica

Citations

Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:51-62. PDF
Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987b. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) with a key to the worker caste. II. Key to the worker caste, including the European species without the Iberian. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:261-293. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2012. Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 23 (4):461-563. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Finzi, B. 1930a. Contributo allo studio degli Aphaenogaster paleartici (Formicidae-Myrmicinae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 62:151-156. PDF
Forel, A. 1913d. Fourmis de la faune méditerranéenne récoltées par MM. U. et J. Sahlberg. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 21:427-438. PDF
Karaman, M. G. 2011b. A catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Montenegro [in Montenegrin]. Podgorica: Catalogues 3, Volume 2, Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, 140 pp. PDF
Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. PDF
Petrov, I. 2006. The ants of Serbia and Montenegro. [In Serbian.]. Posebna Izdanja. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti 656:1-136. PDF
Salata, S.; Borowiec, L. 2018c. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 27 (008):1-51. 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF
Vonshak, M.; Ionescu-Hirsch, A. 2010 ("2009"). A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55. PDF
Zięcina, D.; Menchetti, M.; Borowiec, L.; Bračko, G.; Lapeva-Gjonova, A.; Vila, R.; Salata, S. 2024. Taxonomic revision of the Aphaenogaster subterranea species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 74 (2):237-282. 10.3161/00034541ANZ2024.74.2.002 PDF

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