Aphaenogaster subterranea valida

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

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Aphaenogaster subterranea valida Wheeler, 1915 junior synonym of current valid taxon Aphaenogaster occidentalis (Emery, 1895)

Aphaenogaster subterranea subsp. valida Wheeler, 1915b: 411 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Colorado). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 7 syntype queens, 5 syntype males. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Colorado, Cheyenne Cañon, nr Colorado Springs [38°48′N 104°53′W] (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC. Primary type specimen: MCZ-ENT20609.

Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 60
Subspecies of Aphaenogaster subterranea: Wheeler, 1917a: 516; Emery, 1921c: 60; Creighton, 1950a: 150; Smith, 1951c: 797; Smith, 1958c: 118; Beck et al., 1967: 68; Smith, 1967a: 352; Smith, 1979: 1362; Bolton, 1995b: 74; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 77.
Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster occidentalis: Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 13; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 335.

Infrasubspecies

A. s. v. manni Wheeler, 1917

Citations

Beck, D. E.; Allred, D. M.; Despain, W. J. 1967. Predaceous-scavenger ants in Utah. Great Basin Naturalist 27:67-78.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
Shattuck, S. O.; Cover, S. 2016. Taxonomy of some little-understood North American ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4175:10-22. 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.2 PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1915b. Some additions to the North American ant-fauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34:389-421. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. PDF

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