Tetramorium uelense
Santschi, 1923
valid
Tetramorium (Decamorium) decem st. uelense
Santschi, 1923e:
285 (w.q.)
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87). Primary type locality: lectotype Democratic Republic of Congo (“Congo belge”): Uelé, Vankerkhovenville (Degreef). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0906826.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MRAC.
- Lectotype designation: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87.
- Combination in Decamorium: Bolton, 1976: 298.
- Combination in Tetramorium: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1976: 298; Longhurst et al., 1979: 83; Bolton, 1995b: 169; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87 (redescription).
- Senior synonym of Tetramorium decem nimba: Bolton, 1976: 298; Bolton, 1995b: 169; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87.
Junior synonyms
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Tetramorium decem nimba
(Bernard, 1953)
Obsolete combination(s): Decamorium decem nimba
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 34:281-379. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- 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
- Longhurst, C.; Johnson, R. A.; Wood, T. G. 1979. Foraging, recruitment and predation by Decamorium uelense (Santschi) (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) on termites in southern Guinea Savannah, Nigeria. Oecologia (Berlin) 38:83-91.
- Santschi, F. 1923e. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295. PDF