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 (“Südwestafrika”): 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
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.