Tetramorium syriacum
Emery, 1924
valid
Tetramorium caespitum subsp. syriaca
Emery, 1924f:
277 (w.)
ISRAEL.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: according to original description, “Syrien”; but Csősz et al., 2007: 34, report that the holotype data label has “I.a.Brul. Jaffa” (= Israel, Tel Aviv). Primary type depository: MSNG.
- [First available use of Tetramorium caespitum caespitum syriacum ; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- Subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum: Emery, 1925a: 179 (in text).
- Subspecies of Tetramorium semilaeve: Santschi, 1934d: 279; Aktaç, 1977: 123.
- Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 265; Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 415; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 335; Sanetra et al., 1999: 335 (in text); Csősz et al., 2007: 34 (redescription); Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 144; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 29; Sharaf et al., 2012: 8 (in key); Borowiec, 2014: 205.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Aktaç, N. 1977 ("1976"). Studies on the myrmecofauna of Turkey I. Ants of Siirt, Bodrum and Trabzon. Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Mecmuasi. Seri B 41:115-135. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
- Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
- Csősz, S.; Radchenko, A.; Schulz, A. 2007. Taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic Tetramorium chefketi species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1405:1-38. PDF
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
- Emery, C. 1925a ("1924"). Notes critiques de myrmécologie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 64:177-191. PDF
- Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. PDF
- Kiran, K.; Karaman, C. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548:1-38. PDF
- Kugler, J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae Biologicae 62:251-275. PDF
- Sanetra, M.; Güsten, R.; Schulz, A. 1999. On the taxonomy and distribution of Italian Tetramorium species and their social parasites (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 77:317-357. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1934d. Fourmis d'une croisière. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 74:273-282. PDF
- Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, A. S.; Taylor, B. 2012. A new ant species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia, with a revised key to the Arabian species. PLoS ONE 7 (2):e30811. 10.1371/journal.pone.0030811 PDF