Tetramorium altivagans
Santschi, 1914
valid
Tetramorium caespitum st. altivagans
Santschi, 1914b:
103 (w.)
KENYA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 20 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Kenya: Mt Kinangop, chaine de l’Aberdare, 3100 m., st. no. 55, ii.1912 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel). Primary type depository: NHMB.
- Subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum: Wheeler, 1922: 894.
- Subspecies of Tetramorium pusillum: Emery, 1924f: 281
- Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 305 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 404; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 217.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium simillimum isis: Bolton, 1980: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 404.
Junior synonyms
- Tetramorium simillimum isis Weber, 1943
Obsolete combinations
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.
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.