Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Formica gibbosa Latreille, 1798 PDF: 50 (w.m.) FRANCE. Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype worker(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: France: Brive (
P.A. Latreille). Primary type depository: MNHN.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Emery, 1908d PDF: 332;
Forel, 1909c PDF: 104;
Forel, 1911f PDF: 346;
Karavaiev, 1912a PDF: 5;
Forel, 1915d: 36 (in key);
Emery, 1916a PDF: 130;
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 157;
Emery, 1921c PDF: 57;
Menozzi, 1922c PDF: 325;
Santschi, 1923f PDF: 328;
Donisthorpe, 1926a PDF: 6;
Santschi, 1931a: 3;
Santschi, 1932f PDF: 338;
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 99;
Stitz, 1939: 116;
Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 81 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1950e PDF: 1059;
Ceballos, 1956: 297;
Cagniant, 1966b PDF: 279;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 135 (redescription);
Arnol'di, 1968b PDF: 1805;
Cagniant, 1968a PDF: 142;
Kutter, 1968b PDF: 59;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 60;
Cagniant, 1970a PDF: 415;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 49;
Baroni Urbani, 1976b PDF: 209;
Arnol'di, 1976b PDF: 1024 (in key);
Kutter, 1977c: 78;
Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key);
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 79 (in key);
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 53;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 270 (in key);
Dlussky et al., 1990 PDF: 212;
Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 109;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 31;
Schulz, 1994a PDF: 424;
Bolton, 1995b: 70;
Poldi et al., 1995: 3;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 29;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 13 (in key) ;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 90 (in key);
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 137;
Paknia et al., 2008 PDF: 152;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 486;
Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010 PDF: 41;
Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 13;
Karaman, 2011b PDF: 18;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 6;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 464;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 16;
Kiran et al., 2013 PDF: 49 (in key);
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 12 (see note in bibliography);
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 13;
Lebas et al., 2016: 256;
Sharaf et al., 2018 10.20362/am.010004 PDF: 17 (in key);
Salata & Borowiec, 2018a 10.20362/am.010002 PDF: 12 (in key);
Gómez et al., 2018 10.13102/sociobiology.v65i2.2099 PDF: 221 (in key);
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 42;
Seifert, 2018: 176.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria Asia: Armenia,
Georgia,
Iran,
Israel,
Saudi Arabia,
Turkey,
Turkmenistan Europe: Andorra,
Bulgaria,
France,
Gibraltar,
Greece,
Macedonia,
Montenegro,
Portugal,
Russia,
Spain,
Switzerland Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
Middle and South Europe
Biology:
warm and arid habitats from 700 to 1400 m of altitude
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
Aphaenogaster gibbosa |
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Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Alipanah, H., 2008, A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran., Myrmecologische Nachrichten 11, pp. 151-159: 154, (download) |
154 |
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Aphaenogaster gibbosa |
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Emery, C., 1908, Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) (Fortsetzung.). 3. Die mit Aphaenogaster verwandte Gattungen-gruppe., Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908, pp. 305-338: 332-333, (download) |
332-333 |
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 6 times found in Camino, 5 times found in Pinar, 1 times found in Building, 3 times found in Encinar, 3 times found in Eucaliptal, 3 times found in Pinus halepensis+pistacea lentiscus, 2 times found in Pinar sobre dunas, 2 times found in Erial pedregoso, 2 times found in Bosque Pinus sylvaticus, 2 times found in meadow/pine forest, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 12 times Nido bajo piedra, 12 times NBP, 6 times under stone, 1 times Nest on floor crack, 3 times Forrajeando, 2 times Nest under stone, 2 times Duna, 2 times Bajo piedra, 1 times Forrajenado, 1 times Foraging, 1 times Turbera, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 41 times Hand, 8 times search, 2 times Pitfall, 1 times by hand.
Elevations: collected from 10 - 1329 meters, 612 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1929-05-02 00:00:00.0 and 2020-08-13 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: syntype of Aphaenogaster striola laevior: casent0907684
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