Tetramorium aculeatum melanogyne

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Tetramorium aculeatum melanogyne (Santschi, 1923) unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium aculeatum (Mayr, 1866)

Macromischoides aculeatus var. melanogyne Santschi, 1923e: 285 (w.q.) CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), syntype queen. Primary type locality: Congo (“Congo français”): Brazzaville (A. Weiss). Primary type depository: unknown (not in NHMB, perhaps lost (Bolton, 1980: 353), perhaps in MNHN).

[Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Tetramorium melanogyna Mann, 1919 (Bolton, 1995b: 411).]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1924b: 210 (in key).
Junior synonym of Tetramorium aculeatum: Bolton, 1980: 353; Bolton, 1995b: 411.

Obsolete combinations

Macromischoides aculeatus melanogyne

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.
Santschi, F. 1923e. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295. PDF
Santschi, F. 1924b. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides africains et notes diverses. II. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 12:195-224. PDF

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Formicidae subfamilies Myrmicinae tribes Crematogastrini genera Tetramorium species Tetramorium aculeatum subspecies Tetramorium aculeatum melanogyne infrasubspecies

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