Tetramorium pogonion
Bolton, 1980
valid
Tetramorium pogonion
Bolton, 1980:
249, fig. 21 (w.q.m.)
NAMIBIA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Namibia (“South West Africa”): 37 mi. W Aus, 500 m., 5.v.1958 (E.S. Ross & R.E. Leech). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASTYPE13390.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens, 2 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, CASC, MCZC. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0270793, CASENT0270794.
- Status as species: Marsh, 1986b: 337; Bolton, 1995b: 412; Mbanyana et al., 2018: 38.
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.
- Marsh, A. C. 1986b. Checklist, biological notes and distribution of ants in the central Namib Desert. Madoqua 14:333-344. PDF
- Mbanyana, N.; Hita Garcia, F.; Robertson, H. G.; Le Roux, J. J. 2018. A taxonomic revision of seed harvester ants of the Tetramorium solidum group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in southern Africa. European Journal of Taxonomy 454:1-59. 10.5852/ejt.2018.454 PDF