Protonym: Tetramorium (Xiphomyrmex) humbloti var. pembensis
Authorship Forel, 1907i: 83
Forms q.m.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality TANZANIA (Pemba I.)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Tanzania: Fundu I. (W Pemba), 20.iii. (no collector’s name but probably A. Voeltzkow) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1922: 907). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes Other syntype locality: Tanzania (“east African coast”): Pemba I. (A. Voeltzkow). Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012b: 118, include as syntypes some specimens from “Arusha Chini, 1903”. This locality is not mentioned by Forel, and is in the Klimanjaro Region of Tanzania, therefore the specimens have no type status.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tetramorium humbloti pembensis Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium humbloti Forel, 1891
Original combination