Tapinolepis decolor

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Tapinolepis decolor (Emery, 1895) valid

Plagiolepis decolor Emery, 1895i: 44 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Kimberley, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1922: 932). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0905138. Type notes: Other original syntype locality: South Africa: Hamann’s Kraal, i.-iv.1893 (E. Simon).

Forel, 1910e: 23 (q.m.)
Combination in Plagiolepis (Anoplolepis): Arnold, 1922: 599; Wheeler, 1922: 932.
Combination in Anoplolepis (Anoplolepis): Emery, 1925d: 17.
Combination in Anoplolepis (Mesanoplolepis): Santschi, 1926a: 14.
Combination in Tapinolepis: Bolton, 2003: 268.
Status as species: Forel, 1910e: 23; Arnold, 1922: 599; Wheeler, 1922: 933; Stitz, 1923: 164; Emery, 1925d: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 67; Bolton, 2003: 268.

Obsolete combinations

Plagiolepis decolor

Citations

Arnold, G. 1922. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part V. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:579-674. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30. PDF
Santschi, F. 1926a. Trois notes myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 95:13-28. PDF
Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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