AntCat
Protonym: Tapinoma pithecorum
Authorship Seifert, 2022: 39, figs. 4, 6, 7, 9, table 1
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality GERMANY
Etymology Meaning “belonging to the apes” referring to finding of the first sample in the ape house of the Hannover Zoo.
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Germany: Hannover, Zoo, Affenhaus, Nest in Rindenmulch, 5.ix.2002 (Stellmacher). Primary type depository: SMNG.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 15 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 2 paratype workers with same data as holotype; 8 paratype workers Christmas Islands, i-iv.1933; 1 paratype worker India: M. P. Khalghat, 200 m, 1-13-62 (E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro); 1 paratype worker Pakistan: Balakot, 3500', Kagan Valley 24.v.1974 (C. Baroni Urbani); 1 paratype worker “Penang [Malaysia] 5.iii.27.”, “Nat.Hist.Mus Basel-1972. coll. H. Eidmann” (Dr. Eidmann); 1 paratype worker Oman: Dhofar, Salalah, 9 m, 18.xi.2017 (M.R. Sharaf); 1 paratype worker West Malaysia: Cameron Highlands, 500 m, below Tana Rana 6.x.-.xii.2001, Traps A & B (O.P. Choo). Secondary type depositories: CAS, DEIC, NHMB, SMNG. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0922866, CASENT0095240 ANTC2676.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tapinoma pithecorum Species Valid Original combination