Tetramorium critchleyi

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Tetramorium critchleyi (Bolton, 1976) valid

Rhoptromyrmex critchleyi Bolton, 1976: 303, figs. 3, 12 (w.) NIGERIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Nigeria: Ibadan, I.I.T.A., no. 34G, 23-27.xi.1973 (B.R. Critchley). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901033. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but 11-16.x.1973. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.

Combination in Tetramorium: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
Status as species: Bolton, 1986a: 13 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 377.

Obsolete combinations

Rhoptromyrmex critchleyi

Citations

Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 34:281-379. PDF
Bolton, B. 1986a. A taxonomic and biological review of the tetramoriine ant genus Rhoptromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 11:1-17. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF

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