Tetramorium xuthum
Bolton, 1980
valid
Tetramorium xuthum
Bolton, 1980:
335 (w.)
GHANA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana: Tafo (= New Tafo, Eastern Region, Akim District, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana), 15.ix.1970, on bare ground in bright sunlight (B. Bolton). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 416.
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.