Tapinoma gracile

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

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Tapinoma gracile Forel, 1913 homonym replaced by Tapinoma demissum Bolton, 1995

Tapinoma gracile Forel, 1913a: 140 (w.) ZIMBABWE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“Rhodesia”): Matetsi, Zambesi (G. Arnold). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMUK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0903071, CASENT0909773. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 145, cites 4 worker syntypes.

[Junior secondary homonym of Tapinoma gracile Buckley, 1866.]
Status as species: Arnold, 1915: 156 (redescription); Wheeler, 1922: 924; Shattuck, 1994: 145.
Replacement name: Tapinoma demissum Bolton, 1995b

Citations

Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159.
Forel, A. 1913a. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:108-147. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 obsolete combination)

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