Tetramorium kelleri
Forel, 1887
valid
Tetramorium (Xiphomyrmex) kelleri
Forel, 1887:
385 (w.)
MADAGASCAR.
Malagasy.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers. Primary type locality: Madagascar: nr Tamatavé, bois del’Ivondro (C. Keller). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MHNG, USNM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0102339.
- Combination in Xiphomyrmex: Wheeler, 1922: 1031.
- Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1979: 145.
- Status as species: Forel, 1891c: 153 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 134; Wheeler, 1922: 1031; Emery, 1924f: 281, 287; Bolton, 1979: 145 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 410; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012b: 11 (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.
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Forel, A. 1887. Fourmis récoltées à Madagascar par le Dr. Conrad Keller. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 7:381-389. PDF
- Forel, A. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
- Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2012b. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region—taxonomic revision of the T. kelleri and T. tortuosum species groups. Zootaxa 3592:1-85. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.