Tetramorium solidum
Emery, 1886
valid
Tetramorium solidum
Emery, 1886b:
362, pl. 17, fig. 7 (w.q.)
SOUTH AFRICA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape of Good Hope (L. Peringuey). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MRAC, MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0904840.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 135; Forel, 1910e: 19; Arnold, 1917: 292; Wheeler, 1922: 904; Stitz, 1923: 162; Emery, 1924f: 283; Arnold, 1926: 259; Prins, 1973: 3 (redescription); Bolton, 1980: 252 (redescription); Marsh, 1986b: 337; Bolton, 1995b: 414; Mbanyana et al., 2018: 53.
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.
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1886b. Alcune formiche africane. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 18:355-366. PDF
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Forel, A. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30. PDF
- 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
- Prins, A. J. 1973. African Formicidae (Hymenoptera) in the South African Museum. Description of four new species and notes on Tetramorium Mayr. Annals of the South African Museum 62:1-40. PDF
- Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.