Tetramorium simulator
Arnold, 1917
valid
Tetramorium simulator
Arnold, 1917:
297, pl. 7, fig. 102 (w.)
ZIMBABWE.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“S. Rhodesia”): Malindi, 1.xii.1914 (G. Arnold). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MRAC, SAMC.
- Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 904; Emery, 1924f: 283; Arnold, 1926: 245 (in key); Bolton, 1980: 365 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 414; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 74.
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
- 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. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014a. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae): synonymisation of Decamorium Forel under Tetramorium, and taxonomic revision of the T. decem species group. ZooKeys 411:67-103. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.