Tapinoma collina Foerster, 1850 junior synonym of current valid taxon Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798)
Tapinoma collina Foerster, 1850a: 43 (w.q.) GERMANY. Palearctic.
Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Germany: Siebengebirge (A. Foerster), Germany: nr Boppard (A. Foerster), Germany: Aachen (A. Foerster), Germany: Schneeberg, nr Vaels (A. Foerster). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: 1) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”. 2) Seifert et al., 2024: 34, state that all syntypes are "obviously lost".
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