Tetramorium papuensis

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

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Tetramorium papuensis (Donisthorpe, 1941) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium melleum Emery, 1897

Ireneella papuensis Donisthorpe, 1941j: 175 (m.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Papua, Mafula, 4000 ft, xii.1933 (L.E. Cheesman). Primary type depository: BMNH. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype males (number not stated, “over ninety”). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: BMNH.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 174.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium melleum: Bolton, 1976: 302; Bolton, 1986a: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 378.

Obsolete combinations

Ireneella papuensis

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.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1941j. A new genus and species of Formicidae (Hym.) from Papua. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 77:175. PDF

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