Tetramorium flavithorax
(Santschi, 1914)
valid
Xiphomyrmex muralti st. flavithorax
Santschi, 1914d:
369, fig. 31 (w.)
GHANA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana (“Côte d’Or”): Aburi (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes:
Published name is as above, but data label on the holotype states “Tetramorium (Xiphomyrmex) muralti st. flaviventris”.
- Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1980: 226
- Subspecies of Tetramorium muralti: Wheeler, 1922: 907; Emery, 1924f: 287.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 226 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 407; Hita Garcia et al., 2010b: 45 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 40:193-384. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Hita Garcia, F.; Fischer, G.; Peters, M. K. 2010b. Taxonomy of the Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region. Zootaxa 2704:1-90. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.