Tetramorium fusciclava
Consani & Zangheri, 1952
valid
Tetramorium caespitum var. fusciclavum
[sic]
Consani & Zangheri, 1952:
42 (w.)
ITALY.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Riccione (Emery, 1925)
Secondary type information:
Type locality. Riccione (Italy), 43.999° N, 12.656° E, 11 m a.s.l., leg. C. Emery, 1925.
Type notes:
Wagner et al., 2017: Lectotype designation. Top worker of two syntype workers (of two cards on one needle), labeled "Riccione" [–] SYNTYPI Tetramorium caespitum c. var. fusciclava C. Emery, 1925 [–] "var fusciclava Emery" [–] MUSEO GENOVA coll. C. Emery (dono 1925) [–] ANTWEB CASENT 904802, designated as lectotype (Fig. 17). Lectotype worker and one paralectotype worker in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova (Italy).
- [First available use of Tetramorium caespitum caespitum fusciclava Emery, 1925a: 187 (w.) ITALY; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Bolton, 1995b: 408).].
- Subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum: Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 138.
- Junior synonym of Tetramorium caespitum: Sanetra et al., 1999: 320; Radchenko, 2016: 244.
- Status as species: Wagner et al., 2017: 118 (redescription).
Citations
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Baroni Urbani, C. 1971c. Catalogo delle specie di Formicidae d'Italia (Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia X). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 50:5-287.
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Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Consani, M.; Zangheri, P. 1952. Fauna di Romagna. Imenotteri - Formicidi. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 31:38-48.
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Emery, C. 1925a ("1924"). Notes critiques de myrmécologie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 64:177-191.
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Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
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Sanetra, M.; Güsten, R.; Schulz, A. 1999. On the taxonomy and distribution of Italian Tetramorium species and their social parasites (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 77:317-357.
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Wagner, H. C.; Arthofer, W.; Seifert, B.; Muster, C.; Steiner, F. M.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2017. Light at the end of the tunnel: Integrative taxonomy delimits cryptic species in the Tetramorium caespitum complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 25:95–129.
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