Tetramorium rufescens

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

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Tetramorium rufescens Stitz, 1923 valid

Tetramorium solidum st. rufescens Stitz, 1923: 163 (w.) NAMIBIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 11 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Namibia (“German Southwest Africa”): Swakopmund, 12-19.iv.1911 (W. Michaelsen). Primary type depository: MNHU. Primary type specimens: FOCOL2082, FOCOL2083, FOCOL2084.

Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 249 (redescription); Marsh, 1986b: 337; Bolton, 1995b: 413; Mbanyana et al., 2018: 42.

Obsolete combinations

Tetramorium solidum rufescens

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
Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.

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