Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma) syriaca (Emery)
  Type location Lebanon
(Aphaenogaster gibbosa syriaca n., Emery, 1908c: 335,
worker; raised to species Emery, 1915a: 258) - see below
junior synonym syria (Aphaenogaster
Schmitzi var. syria n.
var., Forel, 1910a: 12, worker, synonymy Emery, 1921f: 60), type
location Syria, Houtaife, Gadeau de Kerville) - no images on Antweb
(June 2014).
subspecies schmitzi
(Aphaenogaster Schmitzi n.
sp., Forel, 1910a: 10, worker), type location Israel, Jerusalem, Schmitz - see below.
Note: Emery's (1921f) listing, under subgenus Attomyrna, appears to regard syria as a synonym but schmitzi as a variety.
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 Emery's
(1908c) description is at  Forel's
(1910a) description of schmitizi and its variety syria
is at 
Egypt records - Mohamed et al (2001,
illustrated); who noted the head is normal nearly as long as broad,
with strong sculpturation; the propodeum has acute spines. As drawn
their specimen(s) was noticeably smaller than the type (below).
Reported from Palestine by Menozzi (1933b: 50), var. schmitzi,
several workers from under a stone at Djenin; collector Dr F S Bodenheimer, 1922-1928.
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The
photomontage of a worker from the type collection is collated from 
The
photomontage of a syntype worker of schmitzi is collated from