Tetramorium diligens
(Smith, 1865)
valid
Myrmica diligens
Smith, 1865a:
73 (w.)
NEW GUINEA.
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: New Guinea: N. (= New Guinea; no futher data) (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depositories: BMNH, OXUM.
- Combination in Xiphomyrmex: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 473.
- Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1977: 87.
- Status as species: Smith, 1871a: 326; Dalla Torre, 1893: 109; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 473; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 125; Bolton, 1977: 87 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 407.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium diligentissima (unnecessary replacement name): Dalla Torre, 1893: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 407.
Junior synonyms
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Tetramorium diligentissima
(Dalla Torre, 1892)
Obsolete combination(s): Pheidole diligentissima
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1977. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Oriental and Indo-Australian regions, and in Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 36:67-151. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
- Smith, F. 1865a. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from the islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 8:61-94. PDF
- Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF