Tapinoma lugubre

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Tapinoma lugubre Santschi, 1917 valid

Tapinoma gracile var. lugubre Santschi, 1917b: 288 (w.m.) ZIMBABWE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“Rhodesia”): Victoria Falls (G. Arnold). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB, NHMUK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0903070, CASENT0911569. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 87, cites 4 worker syntypes in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 145, cites 5 worker syntypes (1 MHNG, 4 NHMB).

Subspecies of Tapinoma gracile Forel, 1913a: Wheeler, 1922: 924; Shattuck, 1994: 145.
Status as species: Arnold, 1926: 222; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Bharti et al., 2013: 304 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

Tapinoma gracile lugubre

Citations

Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
Bharti, H.; Kumar, R.; Dubovikoff, D. A. 2013. A new species of the genus Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 9 (2):303-304. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Santschi, F. 1917b ("1916"). Fourmis nouvelles de la Colonie du Cap, du Natal et de Rhodesia. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 85:279-296. 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.

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