Tetramorium etiolatum
Bolton, 1977
valid
Tetramorium etiolatum
Bolton, 1977:
105, fig. 29 (w.q.m.)
NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Mongi Watershed, Huon Peninsula, Gemeheng, 11-13.iv.1955, 1300 m., no. 785 (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 16 paratype workers, 5 paratype queens, 2 paratype males. Secondary type localities: 9 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens with same data as holotype, 2 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens, 2 paratype males Mongi Watershed, Huon Peninsula, Ebabaang, 16-18.iv.1955, 1300-1400 m., no. 817 (E.O. Wilson), 5 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as last but no. 838, 2 paratype workers Mongi Watershed, Huon Peninsula, Tumnang, 14-15.iv.1955, 1500 m., no. 798 (E.O. Wilson). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 407.
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.