Tetramorium naganum
Bolton, 1979
valid
Tetramorium naganum
Bolton, 1979:
136, fig. 7 (w.q.)
MADAGASCAR.
Malagasy.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: La Mandraka, 1280 m., 8.ii.1977, leaf litter, mont. forest, AB41, nest in seed capsule in litter (W.L. & D.E. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0280584.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 16 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 411; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014c: 26 (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.
- Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014c. The hyper-diverse ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Malagasy region – taxonomic revision of the T. naganum, T. plesiarum, T. schaufussii, and T. severini species groups. ZooKeys 413:1-170. PDF