Tetramorium dysalum
Bolton, 1979
valid
Tetramorium dysalum
Bolton, 1979:
141, fig. 24 (w.q.)
MADAGASCAR.
Malagasy.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: Périnet & vic., rainforest, 17.iii.1969 (W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0906148.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 39 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but on some pins a lower label has “rot. wood”, or “for. litter”. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 407; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012a: 63 (redescription).
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1979. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Malagasy region and in the New World. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 38:129-181. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2012a. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region—taxonomy of the T. bessonii, T. bonibony, T. dysalum, T. marginatum, T. tsingy, and T. weitzeckeri species groups. Zootaxa 3365:1-123. PDF