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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Dolichoderinae
›
Tapinomini
›
Tapinoma
›
Tapinoma indicum
Tapinoma
indicum
Forel, 1895
valid
Tapinoma indicum
Forel, 1895f
: 472 (w.) INDIA (Maharashtra). Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: India: Poona (
Wroughton
). Primary type depositories:
AMNH
,
MCZC
,
MHNG
.
Type notes:
Shattuck, 1994
: 145, cites 26 worker syntypes.
[Misspelled as
endicum
by
Santschi, 1924c
: 112.]
Viehmeyer, 1916a
: 142 (q.m.);
Imai
et al.
, 1984
: 8 (k.)
Combination in
Tapinoma (Micromyrma)
:
Santschi, 1928e
: 473
Subspecies of
Tapinoma melanocephalum
:
Forel, 1909i
: 228
Status as species:
Forel, 1901c
: 17;
Dahl, 1901
: 12;
Bingham, 1903
: 304;
Forel, 1905f
: 22;
Forel, 1909k
: 395;
Forel, 1912a
: 71;
Forel, 1913f
: 663;
Forel, 1913l
: 93;
Emery, 1913a
: 41;
Forel, 1915a
: 34;
Viehmeyer, 1916a
: 142;
Wheeler, 1919f
: 100;
Santschi, 1920h
: 172;
Santschi, 1924c
: 112;
Karavaiev, 1926d
: 441;
Wheeler, 1929h
: 62;
Wheeler, 1930k
: 73;
Wheeler, 1935g
: 36;
Teranishi, 1940
: 37, 59, 78;
Eidmann, 1941a
: 22;
Azuma, 1951
: 88;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 193;
Azuma, 1977a
: 116;
Onoyama, 1980a
: 199;
Shattuck, 1994
: 145;
Bolton, 1995b
: 400;
Mathew & Tiwari, 2000
: 342;
Zhou, 2001a
: 151;
Lin & Wu, 2003
: 60;
Pfeiffer
et al.
, 2011
: 34;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 26;
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 19;
Jaitrong
et al.
, 2016
: 22;
Dias
et al.
, 2020
: 19;
Khachonpisitsak
et al.
, 2020
: 17;
Wang
et al.
, 2022
: 27.
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
T. i. timidum
Santschi, 1928
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