Protonym: Aphaenogaster torossiani
Authorship Cagniant, 1988a: 241, figs. 1-4
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality MOROCCO
Primary type information Primary type material: >30 syntype workers, 5 syntype queens, 25 syntype males. Primary type localities: 30 workers, 1 queen Morocco: High Atlas, Cascades d’Ouzoud, 50 km. WSW Béni-Mellal “as a bird flies”, 750 m., 11.v.1987 (H. Cagniant), 4 queens, 25 males with same data but vi.-vii.1987, “numerous” workers Morocco: High Atlas, Tamda, and Asssif Bernat Valley (H. Cagniant). Primary type depositories: HCPC, MNHN.
Type notes 30 workers, 1 queen are referred to as syntypes, while 4 queens and 25 males are referred to as ‘plesiotypes’, and “numerous” workers as paratypes, but no holotype is designated. All specimens are regarded as syntypes here.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
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