- Tapinoma in Formicidae: Smith, 1858a: 55.
- Tapinoma in Formicinae: Mayr, 1855: 372 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1861: 41 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1862: 653 (in key) [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 10 [Formicidae]; André, 1874b: 168 [Formicidae]; André, 1881c: 63 [Formicidae].
- Tapinoma in Dolichoderinae: Forel, 1878c: 385 [Dolichoderidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 454 [Dolichoderidae]; Forel, 1895b: 109 [Dolichoderidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 164; Emery, 1895l: 771; Forel, 1899f: 101; Wheeler, 1910a: 142.
- Tapinoma in Dolichoderidae: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
- Tapinoma in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini: Emery, 1913a: 38; Arnold, 1915: 152; Forel, 1917: 248; Bondroit, 1918: 89; Wheeler, 1922: 690; subsequent authors except those below; then Jaffe, 1993: 9; Dubovikoff, 2005a: 91 (implied); Ward et al., 2010: 361.
- Tapinoma in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Shattuck, 1992c: 146; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003: 91.
Junior synonyms
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Micromyrma
Dufour, 1857
Obsolete classification(s): Tapinoma (Micromyrma)
- Neoclystopsenella Kurian, 1955
- Pseudaphomomyrmex Wheeler, 1920
- Semonius Forel, 1910
- Zatapinoma Wheeler, 1928
Genus Tapinoma references
Mayr, 1855: 372 (diagnosis); Smith, 1858a: 55 (diagnosis); Roger, 1863b: 13, 14 (Tapinoma, Micromyrma catalogues); Mayr, 1863a: 455 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 10 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 78 (diagnosis); André, 1882c: 222 (Europe & Algeria species key); Cresson, 1887: 258 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 164 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903: 304 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1913a: 38 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1913a: 44 (Semonius diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 152, 157 (diagnosis, South Africa species key, Semonius diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 695 (Pseudaphomomyrmex diagnosis, in key); Wheeler, 1922: 923, 927 (Afrotropical Tapinoma, Semonius catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1034 (Malagasy catalogue); Emery, 1925b: 63 (Palaearctic species key); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927d: 33 (Turkestan species key); Smith, 1928a: 311 (North America species key); Kratochvíl et al., 1944: 79 (Czechoslovakia species key); Creighton, 1950a: 352 (North America species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 192, 196 (Asia Semonius, Tapinoma, Zatapinoma checklists); Bernard, 1967a: 254 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Boven, 1970b: 24 (Netherlands species key); Kempf, 1972b: 246 (Neotropical catalogue); Tarbinsky, 1976: 118 (Kyrghyzstan species key); Kutter, 1977c: 178 (Switzerland species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 547 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978: 87 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Smith, 1979: 1421 (North America catalogue); Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 421 (Malta species key); Gösswald, 1985: 317 (Germany species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 106 (Australia catalogue); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 279 (Balkans species key); Taylor, 1987a: 77 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Dlussky et al., 1990: 168 (Turkmenistan species key); Brandão, 1991: 380 (Neotropical catalogue); Shattuck, 1992c: 146 (diagnosis, review of genus); Arakelian, 1994: 72 (Armenia species key); Shattuck, 1994: 140 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 399 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 116 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 360 (Saudi Arabia species key); Seifert, 1996b: 165 (Central Europe species key); Skinner & Allen, 1996: 40 (Britain species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 20 (Portugal species key); Shattuck, 1999: 81 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001a: 151 (China, Guangxi species key); Czechowski et al., 2002: 135 (Poland species key); Seifert, 2007: 149 (North and Central Europe species key); Heterick, 2009: 58 (south-western Australia species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2011: 13 (Malagasy males); Seifert, 2012a: 146 (Central Europe species key); Sharaf et al., 2012a: 40 (Saudi Arabia species key); Czechowski et al., 2012: 357 (Poland species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 37 (Fiji species key); Bharti et al., 2013: 304 (Tapinoma lugubre species-group key);Seifert et al., 2017: 123 (Tapinoma nigerrimum complex revision, key); Cantone, 2017: 123 (brief male diagnosis); Guerrero, 2019: 716 (Colombia species key); Guerrero, 2021: 429 (morphological traits of Neotropical Tapinoma versus Neotropical Forelius); Al-Keridis et al., 2021: 234 (queen-based key to species of the Arabian Peninsula)
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