Tetramorium avium
Bolton, 1980
valid
Tetramorium avium
Bolton, 1980:
276, figs. 58, 63, 64 (w.q.)
SOUTH AFRICA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape Prov., Seaview, Port Elizabeth, 2.iii.1969, hillscrub, no. M325 (W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 29 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type localities: 14 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 14 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen Cape Prov., Grahamstown, Fern Kloof, 19.ii.1969, no. M87, rotten wood, damp kloof (W.L. Brown), 1 paratype worker Grahamstown, iv.1915 (J. Hewitt). Secondary type depositories: AMGC, BMNH, MCZC, NHMB.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 404.
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.