Ectatomma tridentata

Ectatomma tridentata (Fabricius, 1804) junior synonym of current valid taxon Ectatomma tuberculatum (Olivier, 1792)

Formica tridentata Fabricius, 1804: 412 (w.) SOUTH AMERICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: South America: ("Habitat in America meridionali Dom. Smidt. Mus. Dom. Lund.") (no further data). Primary type depository: ZMUC, ZMUK. Type notes: Zimsen, 1964: 426, cites 4 worker syntypes (2 ZMUC, 2 ZMUK).

Junior synonym of Ectatomma tuberculatum: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 192; Smith, 1858a: 102; Mayr, 1863a: 410; Roger, 1863b: 17; Emery, 1911e: 43; Weber, 1946a: 2; Smith, 1979: 1336; Bolton, 1995b: 187.

Obsolete combinations

Formica tridentata

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Fabricius, J. C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunswick: C. Reichard, xiv + 15-439 + 30 pp. PDF
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1835 ("1836"). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères. Tome I. Paris: Roret, 547 pp. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. 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, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1946a. Two common ponerine ants of possible economic significance, Ectatomma tuberculatum (Olivier) and E. ruidum Roger. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 48:1-16. PDF
Zimsen, E. 1964. The type material of I. C. Fabricius. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 656 pp. PDF