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This history item belongs to Formica melanocephala Fabricius, 1793

Its current taxon owner(s) is Tapinoma melanocephalum

Combination in Lasius: Fabricius, 1804: 417. 

Combination in {tax 429161}: {ref 124870}: 417.
  • Item type: taxt
  • Created at: 2020-08-11
  • Updated at: 2020-08-11
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Taxa belonging to this history item's protonym
Formica melanocephala Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793)
Tapinoma melanocephalum Species Valid
Other history items belonging to Formica melanocephala
#303497 Neotype designation: Guerrero, 2018: 499.
#289589 [Misspelled as melanorephalum by Santschi, 1924c: 112.]
#271595 Emery, 1887a: 249 (m.); Forel, 1891c: 102 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 197 (l.); Crozier, 1970a: 119 (k.)
#289590 (selected) Combination in Lasius: Fabricius, 1804: 417.
#289591 Combination in Myrmica: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 185.
#271596 Combination in Micromyrma: Roger, 1862b: 258.
#285704 Combination in Tapinoma: Mayr, 1862: 651; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165.
#285703 Combination in Tapinoma (Micromyrma): Santschi, 1928e: 475.
#271599 Status as species: Latreille, 1802a: 269; Fabricius, 1804: 417; Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 185; Smith, 1858a: 46; Roger, 1862b: 258; Roger, 1863b: 14; Mayr, 1863a: 455; Mayr, 1876: 83; Forel, 1881: 3; Mayr, 1884: 31; Mayr, 1886c: 359; Emery, 1887a: 249; Forel, 1891c: 101 (redescription); André, 1892c: 51; Forel, 1893j: 352; André, 1893b: 152; Dalla Torre, 1893: 164; Emery, 1893f: 89; Emery, 1893g: 194; Emery, 1893h: 249; Emery, 1893i: 267; Forel, 1895a: 49; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Emery, 1895g: 337; Pergande, 1896: 870; Mayr, 1897: 432; Emery, 1897: 573; Forel, 1899a: 120; Forel, 1899b: 101; Emery, 1900: 696; Emery, 1901h: 121; Forel, 1902j: 476; Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 304; Wheeler, 1905c: 131; Emery, 1906c: 177; Wheeler, 1907b: 275; Forel, 1907h: 9; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Forel, 1908a: 64; Wheeler, 1909c: 272; Wheeler, 1909d: 336, 342; Yano, 1910a: 421; Wheeler, 1911a: 29; Wheeler, 1912a: 46; Forel, 1912l: 164; Emery, 1913a: 41; Forel, 1913g: 197; Forel, 1913l: 93; Wheeler, 1913b: 498; Wheeler, 1913e: 242; Wheeler, 1913f: 237; Santschi, 1914d: 377; Emery, 1914f: 420; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 342; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 142; Mann, 1916: 473; Wheeler, 1916f: 330; Crawley, 1916b: 375; Donisthorpe, 1918c: 167; Wheeler, 1919d: 275; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Santschi, 1920h: 172; Mann, 1921: 473; Wheeler, 1922: 924, 1034; Wheeler, 1922e: 15; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Wheeler, 1923c: 4; Wheeler, 1924b: 110; Crawley, 1924a: 403; Santschi, 1924c: 112; Mann, 1925b: 6; Mukerjee & Ribeiro, 1925: 207; Karavaiev, 1926d: 441; Stärcke, 1926a: 118 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1927c: 395; Wheeler, 1927d: 7; Wheeler, 1927h: 99; Wheeler, 1928c: 30; Cheesman & Crawley, 1928: 522; Santschi, 1928c: 70; Wheeler, 1929g: 8; Wheeler, 1929h: 57; Karavaiev, 1930a: 213; Menozzi, 1930b: 114; Menozzi, 1930h: 328; Menozzi & Russo, 1930: 165; Smith, 1930a: 5; Wheeler, 1930k: 73; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 449; Wheeler, 1932a: 13; Wheeler, 1932g: 17; Wheeler, 1934a: 178; Wheeler, 1934i: 16; Donisthorpe, 1935: 634; Menozzi, 1935b: 200; Wheeler, 1935g: 36; Wheeler, 1936c: 204; Wheeler, 1937a: 23; Smith, 1937: 861; Teranishi, 1940: 59; Yasumatsu, 1940c: 68; Donisthorpe, 1941h: 60; Santschi, 1941: 277; Wheeler, 1942: 252; Menozzi, 1942a: 178; Eidmann, 1944: 459, 469; Stärcke, 1944d: xviii; Donisthorpe, 1948g: 139; Weber, 1948b: 85; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1951c: 838; Azuma, 1951: 88; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 192; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1958c: 141; Kempf, 1961b: 520; Wilson, 1962c: 18; Linsley & Usinger, 1966: 175; Baltazar, 1966: 263; Smith, 1967a: 365; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 80; Taylor, 1967b: 1094; Kempf, 1972b: 247; Alayo, 1974: 24 (in key); Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 8 (in key); Taylor, 1976a: 87; Taylor, 1976b: 197; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Smith, 1979: 1421; Collingwood, 1979: 36; Onoyama, 1980a: 199; Collingwood, 1985: 243; Taylor, 1987a: 77; Deyrup et al., 1989: 99; Morisita et al., 1991: 7; Wu & Wang, 1992c: 1311; Perrault, 1993: 333; Dlussky, 1994a: 55; Shattuck, 1994: 147; Douwes, 1995: 91; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 116; Dorow, 1996a: 82; Collingwood et al., 1997: 509; Tiwari, 1999: 83; Deyrup et al., 2000: 300; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 342; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Wetterer, 2002: 129; Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 218; Blard et al., 2003: 133; Deyrup, 2003: 47; Imai et al., 2003: 84; Lin & Wu, 2003: 60; Wetterer & Vargo, 2003: 417; Collingwood et al., 2004: 486; Ghosh et al., 2005: 10; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 42; Ward, 2005: 27; Wetterer, 2006: 415; Wetterer et al., 2007: 31; Wild, 2007b: 25; Clouse, 2007b: 206; Don, 2007: 191; Framenau & Thomas, 2008: 59; Heterick, 2009: 58; Terayama, 2009: 199; Wetterer, 2009b: 23; Boer, 2010: 16; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 7; Collingwood et al., 2011: 415; Csősz et al., 2011: 58; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 34; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 254; Ellison et al., 2012: 105; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 26; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 37; Sharaf et al., 2012a: 40 (in key); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 202; Sarnat et al., 2013: 69; Borowiec, 2014: 168 (see note in bibliography); Ramage, 2014: 154; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 109; Bharti et al., 2016: 19; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 22; Wetterer et al., 2016: 20; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Sharaf et al., 2017: 5; Deyrup, 2017: 176; Steiner et al., 2017: 17; Sharaf et al., 2018: 3; Guerrero, 2018: 499 (redescription); García-Avendaño & Guerrero, 2018: 226 (redescription); Werner et al., 2018: 7; Dekoninck et al., 2019: 1158; Guerrero, 2019: 717; Rasheed et al., 2019: 428; Lubertazzi, 2019: 184; Dias et al., 2020: 19; Sharaf et al., 2020: 536; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 17; Abdel-Dayem et al., 2021: 4; Seifert, 2022: 38; Wang et al., 2022: 27; Sharaf et al., 2022: 6; Herrera et al., 2024: 158; Jallow & Gómez, 2024: 9; Cover & Rabeling, 2024: 113 (in key).
#287578 Senior synonym of Tapinoma melanocephalum australis: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 80; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 401; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Imai et al., 2003: 84; Ramage, 2014: 154; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 38.
#271598 Senior synonym of Tapinoma melanocephalum coronatum: Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 38.
#303498 Senior synonym of Tapinoma domesticum: Pergande, 1896: 870 (by implication); Forel, 1899b: 101 (by implication).
#287579 Senior synonym of Tapinoma familiaris: Emery, 1887a: 249; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Pergande, 1896: 870; Forel, 1899b: 101; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Emery, 1913a: 41; Wheeler, 1919d: 276; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Wheeler, 1922: 925; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 401; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Imai et al., 2003: 84; Radchenko, 2016: 93; Guerrero, 2018: 499.
#303583 Senior synonym of Tapinoma jerdoni: Seifert, 2022: 39.
#289592 Senior synonym of Tapinoma luffae: Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 39.
#288388 Senior synonym of Tapinoma melanocephalum malesianum: Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 38.
#287580 Senior synonym of Tapinoma nana: Emery, 1892c: 166; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Pergande, 1896: 870; Forel, 1899b: 101; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Emery, 1913a: 41; Wheeler, 1919d: 275; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Wheeler, 1922: 925; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Tiwari, 1999: 83; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Guerrero, 2018: 499.
#271597 Senior synonym of Tapinoma pellucida: Mayr, 1886c: 359; Forel, 1891c: 102; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Pergande, 1896: 870; Forel, 1899b: 101; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Emery, 1913a: 41; Wheeler, 1919d: 275; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Wheeler, 1922: 925; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Imai et al., 2003: 84; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Guerrero, 2018: 499; Seifert, 2022: 38.
#294680 Senior synonym of Tapinoma wallacei: unavailable name (proposed in synonymy), and also unnecessary (second) replacement name: new synonym (unpublished).
#303580 Senior synonym of Tapinoma wallacei: Seifert, 2022: 39.