Tetramorium pusillum
Emery, 1895
valid
Tetramorium pusillum
Emery, 1895i:
38 (w.q.)
SOUTH AFRICA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype worker(s), syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape Town, 1893 (E. Simon). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MSNG.
- Status as species: Arnold, 1917: 323; Wheeler, 1922: 193, 898; Emery, 1924f: 281; Arnold, 1926: 272; Menozzi, 1933a: 105; Bernard, 1953b: 247; Bolton, 1980: 318 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 413.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium pusillum ladismithensis: Bolton, 1980: 318; Bolton, 1995b: 413.
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium pusillum tablensis: Bolton, 1980: 318; Bolton, 1995b: 413.
Junior synonyms
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Tetramorium pusillum ladismithensis
Forel, 1913
Obsolete combination(s): Tetramorium caespitum ladismithensis
- Tetramorium pusillum tablensis Forel, 1914
Citations
- Arnold, G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:271-402. PDF
- Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
- Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
- 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.
- Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Menozzi, C. 1933a. Raccolte mirmecologiche dell'Africa orientale conservate nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" di Genova. II. Formiche dell'Uganda e delle isole Sesse raccolte dal Dr. E. Bayon. [concl.]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 56:113-114.
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.