Tetramorium kestrum
Bolton, 1980
valid
Tetramorium kestrum
Bolton, 1980:
300 (w.)
UGANDA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Uganda (“Kenya-Uganda border”): Busnia, 17.ii.1948, no. 2080 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 8 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: 5 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 3 paratype workers with same data as holotype but no. 2080 omitted. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, NHMB.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 410; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 217.
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.
- Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF