Tetramorium kutteri
(Tinaut, 1990)
valid
Teleutomyrmex kutteri
Tinaut, 1990b:
202, figs. 1-3, photos 1-2 (q.m.)
SPAIN.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Spain: Sierra Nevada, "Prados de Otero", 2250m, 27.vii.1982. Primary type depository: ATPC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 41 paratype queens, 3 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: ATPC, ZSMC, collections of Dr Kutter and Dr A. Buschinger.
- Combination in Tetramorium: Ward et al., 2015: 76.
- [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Tetramorium semilaeve kutteri .]
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 403; Tinaut et al., 2005: 479; Borowiec, 2014: 170; Lebas et al., 2016: 396; Kiran et al., 2017: 146.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Kiran, K.; Karaman, C.; Lapeva-Gjonova, A.; Aksoy, V. 2017. Two new species of the “ultimate” parasitic ant genus Teleutomyrmex Kutter, 1950 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Western Palaearctic. Myrmecological News 25:145-155. PDF
- Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
- Tinaut, A. 1990b. Teleutomyrmex kutteri, spec. nov. A new species from Sierra Nevada (Granada, Spain). Spixiana 13:201-208. PDF
- Tinaut, A.; Ruano, F.; Martínez, M. D. 2005. Biology, distribution and taxonomic status of the parasitic ants of the Iberian Peninsula (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 46:449-489. PDF
- 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