Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 valid neuter
Tapinoma Foerster, 1850a: 43 Type-species: Tapinoma collina (junior synonym of Tapinoma erraticum), by monotypy.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Tapinoma catalogues

Mayr, 1863a: 455; Roger, 1863b: 13, 14 (Tapinoma, Micromyrma); Emery & Forel, 1879: 454 (Europe); Cresson, 1887: 258 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 164 (Tapinoma, Micromyrma); Emery, 1913a: 38 (Tapinoma); Emery, 1913a: 44 (Semonius); Wheeler, 1922: 923, 927 (Afrotropical Tapinoma, Semonius); Wheeler, 1922: 1034 (Malagasy); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 192, 196 (Asia Semonius, Tapinoma, Zatapinoma); Smith, 1951c: 837 (North America); Kempf, 1972b: 246 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1421 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 106 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 77 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand); Brandão, 1991: 380 (Neotropical); Shattuck, 1994: 140; Bolton, 1995b: 399; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 424 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).

Genus Tapinoma references

Mayr, 1855: 372 (diagnosis); Smith, 1858a: 55 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1865: 10 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 78 (diagnosis); André, 1882c: 222 (Europe & Algeria species key); Bingham, 1903: 304 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1913a: 38 (diagnosis); Emery, 1913a: 44 (Semonius diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 152, 157 (diagnosis, South Africa species key, Semonius diagnosis); Emery, 1916a: 216 (Italy species key); Wheeler, 1922: 208 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 695 (Pseudaphomomyrmex diagnosis, in key); Emery, 1925b: 63 (Palaearctic species key); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927d: 33 (Turkestan species key); Smith, 1928a: 311 (North America species key); Kratochvíl et al., 1944: 79 (Czechoslovakia species key); Creighton, 1950a: 352 (Nearctic species key); Bernard, 1967a: 254 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Boven, 1970b: 24 (Netherlands species key); Tarbinsky, 1976: 118 (Kyrgyzstan species key); Kutter, 1977c: 178 (Switzerland species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 547 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978: 87 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 421 (Malta species key); Gösswald, 1985: 317 (Germany species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 279 (Balkans species key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 168 (Turkmenistan species key); Shattuck, 1992c: 146 (diagnosis, review of genus); Arakelian, 1994: 72 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1053 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 116 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 360 (Saudi Arabia species key); Seifert, 1996b: 165 (Central Europe species key); Skinner & Allen, 1996: 40 (Britain species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 20 (Portugal species key); Shattuck, 1999: 81 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001a: 151 (China, Guangxi species key); Czechowski et al., 2002: 135 (Poland species key); Seifert, 2007: 149 (North and Central Europe species key); Heterick, 2009: 58 (south-western Australia species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2011: 13 (Malagasy males); Seifert, 2012a: 146 (Central Europe species key); Sharaf et al., 2012a: 40 (Saudi Arabia species key); Czechowski et al., 2012: 357 (Poland species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 37 (Fiji Is species key); Bharti et al., 2013: 304 (Tapinoma lugubre species-group key); Baccaro et al., 2015: 142 (genus in Brazil); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 423 (diagnosis); Radchenko, 2016: 87 (Ukraine species key); Seifert et al., 2017: 123 (Tapinoma nigerrimum complex revision, key); Cantone, 2017: 123 (brief male diagnosis); García-Avendaño & Guerrero, 2018: 224 (Colombia species key); Guerrero, 2019: 716 (Colombia species key); Guerrero, 2021: 429 (morphological traits of Neotropical Tapinoma versus Neotropical Forelius); Al-Keridis et al., 2021: 234 (Arabian queens key); Heterick, 2021: 54 (Western Australia species key); Abdel-Dayem et al., 2021: 19 (Arabia species key); Sharaf & Aldawood, 2022: 5 (worker-based key to Arabian species); Seifert, 2022: 43 (provisional key to Oriental and Australian-Polynesian species); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 42 (diagnosis, key to Greece species); Seifert et al., 2024: 16 (Palaearctic species revision, worker-based key); Cover & Rabeling, 2024: 113 (queen-based key to Nearctic species north of Mexico), 115 (male-based key to Nearctic species north of Mexico); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 304 (Malagasy region male diagnosis); Shakur et al., 2024: 5 (worker-based Tapinoma lugubre group key).

Citations

Extant: 81 valid species (18 synonyms, 3 homonyms, 1 unidentifiable, 4 unavailable, 31 obsolete combinations, 5 unavailable misspellings), 19 valid subspecies (8 synonyms, 1 homonym, 1 unidentifiable, 1 unavailable, 18 obsolete combinations, 1 unavailable misspelling)

Fossil: 6 valid species (1 homonym, 1 unavailable misspelling)

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