Tetramorium akengense

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Tetramorium akengense (Wheeler, 1922) valid

Xiphomyrmex occidentalis subsp. akengensis Wheeler, 1922: 194 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous specimens”). Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Akenge, x.1913 (H.O. Lang). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, USNM. Primary type specimen: ZFMKHYM20096176.

Subspecies of Tetramorium occidentale: Santschi, 1935a: 268.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium occidentale: Bolton, 1980: 229; Bolton, 1995b: 404.
Status as species: Hita Garcia et al., 2010b: 43 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Xiphomyrmex occidentalis akengensis

Citations

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.
Hita Garcia, F.; Fischer, G.; Peters, M. K. 2010b. Taxonomy of the Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region. Zootaxa 2704:1-90. PDF
Santschi, F. 1935a. Fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 27:254-285. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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