Tetramorium africanum
(Mayr, 1866)
valid
Macromischa africana
Mayr, 1866a:
507 (w.)
GHANA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Ghana (“Goldküste”): (no further data). Primary type depository: NHMW.
- Mayr, 1895: 131 (q.)
- Combination in Tetramorium: Emery, 1896d: 103; Emery, 1924f: 280.
- Combination in Macromischoides: Wheeler, 1922: 188 (in text), 890.
- Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1976: 363 (in text); Bolton, 1980: 355.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 120; Mayr, 1895: 131; Emery, 1896d: 103; Santschi, 1910c: 385; Forel, 1911h: 279; Santschi, 1914d: 366; Forel, 1916: 421; Wheeler, 1922: 890; Santschi, 1924b: 210 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 280; Brown, 1964a: 12; Bolton, 1980: 355 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 403.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium lamottei: Bolton, 1980: 355; Bolton, 1995b: 404.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium tessmanni: Brown, 1964c: 12; Bolton, 1980: 355; Bolton, 1995b: 404.
Junior synonyms
- Tetramorium lamottei Bernard, 1953
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Tetramorium tessmanni
(Forel, 1910)
Obsolete combination(s): Rhoptromyrmex tessmanni
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 34:281-379. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 40:193-384. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1964a. Some tramp ants of Old World origin collected in tropical Brazil. Entomological News 75:14-15. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1964c. [Review of: Wheeler, G. C., Wheeler, J. 1963. The ants of North Dakota. Grand Forks, North Dakota: University of North Dakota Press, viii + 326 pp.]. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 37:87-88. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1896d. Sur les fourmis du genre Macromischa Rog. (Hym.). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1896:102-103. PDF
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Forel, A. 1911h. Fourmis d'Afrique et d'Asie. I. Fourmis d'Afrique surtout du Musée du Congo Belge. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 1:274-283. PDF
- Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53:484-517. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1895. Afrikanische Formiciden. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 10:124-154. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1910c ("1909"). Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus du Congo français. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 78:349-400. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1924b. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides africains et notes diverses. II. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 12:195-224. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.