Tapinoma breviscapum

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Tapinoma breviscapum Forel, 1908 valid

Tapinoma atriceps var. breviscapa Forel, 1908: 384 (w.q.) BRAZIL (São Paulo). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Escárraga et al., 2021: 48). Primary type locality: lectotype Brazil: Estança Ruiz da Serra, nr São Paulo (H. von Ihering) (by restriction of Escárraga et al., 2021: 48). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0909768. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0909768 (uppermost and lowermost specimens on same pin as lectotype). Type notes: 1) Shattuck, 1994: 142, cites 48 worker, 1 queen syntypes. 2) Other original syntype locality: Brazil: São Paulo (Lutz).

Escárraga et al., 2021: 49 (m.)
Subspecies of Tapinoma atriceps: Emery, 1913a: 41; Luederwaldt, 1918: 47; Borgmeier, 1923: 100; Wheeler, 1942: 250; Kempf, 1972b: 247; Shattuck, 1994: 142; Bolton, 1995b: 399.
Status as species: Escárraga et al., 2021: 48 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Tapinoma atriceps breviscapum

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24:33-103.
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Escárraga, M. E.; Lattke, J. E.; Pie, M. R.; Guerrero, R. J. 2021. Morphological and genetic evidence supports the separation of two Tapinoma ants (Formicidae, Dolichoderinae) from the Atlantic Forest biome. ZooKeys 1033:35-62. 10.3897/zookeys.1033.59880 PDF
Forel, A. 1908. Ameisen aus Sao Paulo (Brasilien), Paraguay etc. gesammelt von Prof. Herm. v. Ihering, Dr. Lutz, Dr. Fiebrig, etc. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 58:340-418. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

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