Protonym: Aphaenogaster crocea subsp. faureli
Authorship Cagniant, 1969a: 232, figs.
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality ALGERIA
Primary type information Primary type material: 60 syntype workers, 12 syntype queens, 23 syntype males. Primary type locality: Algeria: Aurès Mts, Djebel Innoumar, Pin d’Alep forest of Beni-Imboul, 22 km. SSW Bou-Hammama, 40 km. SW Khenchla, 1250 m., 13.vi.1967 (H. Cagniant). Primary type depository: not stated (probably HCPC, MNHN).
Type notes As well as these syntypes Cagniant also includes, as ‘paratypes’ (status uncertain), the following: 15 workers Djebel Boutchaout, 18 km. SSW Bou-Hammama, 1400 m., 13.vi.1967 (H. Cagniant), “several” workers, queens Aurès, Djebel Titouguelt, 10 km. SW Batna, 1350 m., 15.vi.1967 (H. Cagniant), “several” workers Aurès, Djebel Chenntouf, 15 km. SW Batna, 1300 m., 16.vi.1967 (H. Cagniant).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Aphaenogaster crocea faureli Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Aphaenogaster faureli Cagniant, 1969
Original combination
Aphaenogaster faureli Species Valid