Tetramorium depressiceps
Menozzi, 1933
valid
Tetramorium semilaeve subsp. depressiceps
Menozzi, 1933b:
71, fig. 3 (w.q.m.)
ISRAEL.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “una colonia”), 1 syntype queen, 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: Israel: nr Jericho, Wadi Kelt, under stone, no. 8 (F.S. Bodenheimer). Primary type depositories: IEUB, and presumably also in TAUI.
- Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 264; Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 406; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 334; Mohamed et al., 2001: 55; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009: 45; Sharaf et al., 2012: 8 (in key); Borowiec, 2014: 197; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 136.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
- Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
- Kugler, J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae Biologicae 62:251-275. PDF
- Menozzi, C. 1933b. Le formiche della Palestina. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 12:49-113. PDF
- Mohamed, S.; Zalat, S.; Fadl, H.; Gadalla, S.; Sharaf, M. 2001. Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3:40-61. PDF
- Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, A. S.; Taylor, B. 2012. A new ant species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia, with a revised key to the Arabian species. PLoS ONE 7 (2):e30811. 10.1371/journal.pone.0030811 PDF
- Tohmé, G.; Tohmé, H. 2014. Nouvelle liste des espèces de fourmis du Liban (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). Lebanese Science Journal 15 (1):133-141. PDF
- Vonshak, M.; Ionescu-Hirsch, A. 2009. A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55. PDF