Tetraponera tessmanni castanea

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Tetraponera tessmanni castanea (Wheeler, 1922) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera tessmanni (Stitz, 1910)

Viticicola tessmanni var. castanea Wheeler, 1922b: 112 (w.q.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Avakubi (H.O. Lang). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC, MSNG, NHMB, USNM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0915540. Type notes: Ward, 2022: 38, cites 17 worker, 4 queen syntypes.

Junior synonym of Tetraponera tessmanni: Brown, 1950g: 248; Bolton, 1995b: 417; Ward, 2022: 38.

Obsolete combinations

Viticicola tessmanni castanea

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1950g. Morphological, taxonomic, and other notes on ants. Wasmann Journal of Biology 8:241-250. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2022. The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species. Zootaxa 5102 (1):1-70. 10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922b. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45:39-269. PDF

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