Tapinoma dimmocki

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Tapinoma dimmocki (Wheeler, 1915) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tapinoma sessile (Say, 1836)

Bothriomyrmex dimmocki Wheeler, 1915b: 417 (w.q.) U.S.A. (Massachusetts). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Shattuck, 1992c: 153). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Massachusetts, Mt Tom, nr Springfield, 27.viii.1897 (G. Dimmock). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: 1) Original description cites 2 worker, 5 queen syntypes. 2) Cover & Rabeling, 2024: 128, state that the paralectotype queens belong to Tapinoma shattucki.

Lectotype designation: Shattuck, 1992c: 153.
Combination in Tapinoma: Emery, 1925c: 19
Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Tapinoma: Smith, 1951c: 838.
Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae: Smith, 1979: 1422
Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 352.
Junior synonym of Tapinoma sessile: Shattuck, 1992c: 153; Shattuck, 1994: 153; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Hamm, 2010: 21; Cover & Rabeling, 2024: 128.

Obsolete combinations

Bothriomyrmex dimmocki

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Cover, S. P.; Rabeling, C. 2024. Four new inquiline social parasite species in the dolichoderine ant genus Tapinoma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1202:111-134. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1202.120478 PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Emery, C. 1925c. Les espèces européennes et orientales du genre Bothriomyrmex. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56:5-22. PDF
Hamm, C. A. 2010. Multivariate discrimination and description of a new species of Tapinoma from the western United States. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 103:20-29. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181. 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
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1915b. Some additions to the North American ant-fauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34:389-421. PDF

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