Tetramorium bicarinatum
(Nylander, 1846)
valid
Myrmica bicarinata
Nylander, 1846b:
1061 (in text) (w.q.)
U.S.A. (California).
Nearctic.
- Forel, 1891b: 151 (m., misidentified as Pheidole guineensis ); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1954d: 449 (l., misidentified as Pheidole guineensis ); Wheeler, W.M. 1924c: 136 (gynandromorph, misidentified as Pheidole guineensis ).
- Combination in Tetramorium: Mayr, 1862: 740; Bolton, 1977: 94
- Junior synonym of Pheidole guineensis : Mayr, 1862: 740; Roger, 1862c: 293; Roger, 1863b: 27; Mayr, 1863a: 456; Mayr, 1865: 89; Mayr, 1872: 151; Emery & Forel, 1879: 467; Forel, 1891c: 150; Dalla Torre, 1893: 133; Forel, 1895b: 126; Wheeler, 1908a: 143; Wheeler, 1919d: 274; Wheeler, 1922: 896; Emery, 1924f: 278; Kempf, 1972b: 249.
- Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 130; Cresson, 1887: 260; Bolton, 1977: 70, 94 (redescription); Bolton, 1979: 164 (redescription); Collingwood, 1979: 84; Bolton, 1980: 267 (redescription); Onoyama, 1980a: 197; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 89; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 277 (in key); Taylor, 1987a: 78; Wang et al., 1988: 267; Deyrup et al., 1989: 97; Brandão, 1991: 381; Ogata, 1991b: 102; Morisita et al., 1992: 35; Perrault, 1993: 333; Bolton, 1995b: 405; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 83; Tang et al., 1995: 79; Dorow, 1996a: 81; Collingwood et al., 1997: 508; Deyrup et al., 2000: 298; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 307; Zhou, 2001a: 106; Wetterer, 2002: 129; Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 219; Deyrup, 2003: 47; Imai et al., 2003: 136; Lin & Wu, 2003: 66; Wetterer & Vargo, 2003: 417; Collingwood & Van Harten, 2005: 76; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 43; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 70; Ward, 2005: 68; Petrov, 2006: 100 (in key); Zhou, 2006: 583; Don, 2007: 145; Clouse, 2007b: 253; Wetterer et al., 2007: 27; Framenau & Thomas, 2008: 73; Heterick, 2009: 177; Terayama, 2009: 162; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009: 45; Wetterer, 2009a: 1; Boer, 2010: 66; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 7; Collingwood et al., 2011: 443; Csősz et al., 2011: 57; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2011: 18 (redescription); Karaman, 2011b: 54; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 54; Terayama et al., 2011: 77; Bharti & Kumar, 2012b: 32 (in key); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 56; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 138; Sharaf et al., 2012: 8 (in key); Sarnat et al., 2013: 72; Borowiec, 2014: 195; Ramage, 2014: 166; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 228; Bharti et al., 2016: 45; Wetterer et al., 2016: 20; Agavekar et al., 2017: 9; Deyrup, 2017: 150; Wagner et al., 2018: 4 (in list); Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 50; Dekoninck et al., 2019: 1158; Fernández & Serna, 2019: 827; Lubertazzi, 2019: 190; Madl, 2019: 16.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium cariniceps: Bolton, 1977: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 405; Zhou, 2001a: 106; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2011: 18.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium kollari: Nylander, 1856b: 87; Bolton, 1977: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 405; Zhou, 2001a: 106; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2011: 18.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium modesta : Bolton, 1977: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 405; Zhou, 2001a: 106; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2011: 18.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium reticulata: Bolton, 1977: 94; Brandão, 1991: 381; Bolton, 1995b: 405; Zhou, 2001a: 106; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2011: 18.
- [Note: the names Tetramorium cariniceps, Tetramorium kollari and Tetramorium reticulata had previously been incorrectly synonymised with Pheidole guineensis by Roger, 1862c: 293, and Mayr, 1862: 717; Tetramorium modesta was wrongly synonymised with Pheidole guineensis by Donisthorpe, 1932c: 463.]
Junior synonyms
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Tetramorium cariniceps
(Guérin-Méneville, 1852)
Obsolete combination(s): Myrmica cariniceps
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Tetramorium kollari
(Mayr, 1853)
Obsolete combination(s): Myrmica kollari
- Tetramorium modesta (Smith, 1860)
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Tetramorium reticulata
(Smith, 1862)
Obsolete combination(s): Myrmica reticulata
Obsolete combinations
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