Tetramorium praetextum
Bolton, 1980
valid
Tetramorium praetextum
Bolton, 1980:
282, fig. 52 (w.)
NAMIBIA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Namibia (“South West Africa”): 10 mi. S Okaukuejo, 14.v.1958, 1100 m. (E.S. Ross & R.E. Leech). Primary type depository: CASC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 5 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, CASC, MCZC.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 413.
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.