Tapinoma melanocephalum coronatum

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Tapinoma melanocephalum coronatum Forel, 1908 junior synonym of current valid taxon Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793)

Tapinoma melanocephalum var. coronatum Forel, 1908c: 62 (w.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Guerrero, 2018: 500). Primary type locality: lectotype Costa Rica: Puntarenas (P. Biolley) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 247). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0909775. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB. Type notes: 1) Shattuck, 1994: 148, cites 7 worker syntypes. 2) Other original syntype locality: Jamaica: (no further data) (A. Forel).

Lectotype designation: Guerrero, 2018: 500.
Subspecies of Tapinoma melanocephalum: Emery, 1913a: 41; Kempf, 1972b: 247; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 400.
Junior synonym of Tapinoma melanocephalum: Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 38.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1908c. Fourmis de Costa-Rica récoltées par M. Paul Biolley. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 44:35-72. PDF
Guerrero, R. J. 2018. Taxonomic identity of the ghost ant, Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Zootaxa 4410:497-510. 10.11646/zootaxaa.4410.3.4 PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Seifert, B. 2022. The previous concept of the cosmopolitan pest ant Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) includes two species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Tapinoma). Osmia 10:35-44. 10.47446/OSMIA10.4 PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF

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