Tetramorium caritum
(Bolton, 1986)
valid
Rhoptromyrmex caritus
Bolton, 1986a:
12, figs. 15, 17 (q.)
UGANDA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Uganda: Ruwenzori Range, Ibanda, 4700 ft, 20-21.viii.1952 (D.S. Fletcher). Primary type depository: BMNH.
- Combination in Tetramorium: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 377.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1986a. A taxonomic and biological review of the tetramoriine ant genus Rhoptromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 11:1-17. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF