Tapinoma madeirense
Forel, 1895
valid
Tapinoma erraticum var. madeirense
Forel, 1895e:
231 (w.)
PORTUGAL (Madeira).
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype queen (by designation of Wetterer et al., 2007: 24). Primary type locality: lectotype Portugal: Madeira, Ribeira Brava (P.E. Schmitz). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 16 paralectotype workers, 14 paralectotype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: HNHM, MCZC, MHNG, NHMB, SIZK.
Type notes:
1) The original description does not mention queens. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 85, cites 3 worker syntypes in NHMB. 3) Shattuck, 1994: 144, cites 43 worker syntypes (7 MCZC, 33 MHNG, 3 NHMB). 4) Seifert, 2012a: 140, cites 16 worker, 14 queen paralectotypes in MHNG. 5) Radchenko et al., 2024: 285, cite 2 worker paralectotypes in SIZK. 6) Wetterer et al., 2007: 24, mention some ‘paralectotypes’ from Curral (presumably Curral das Freiras (Camara de Lobos)), a locality not mentioned in the original description.
- Lectotype designation: Wetterer et al., 2007: 24.
- Emery, 1925b: 56 (q.)
- Subspecies of Tapinoma erraticum: Ruzsky, 1905b: 481; Emery, 1913a: 40; Emery, 1925b: 56 (redescription); Baroni Urbani, 1968e: 477; Shattuck, 1994: 144; Bolton, 1995b: 400.
- Status as species: Wetterer et al., 2007: 24; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 478; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 32; Boer, 2010: 16; Csősz et al., 2011: 58; Legakis, 2011: 24; Seifert, 2012a: 142; Czechowski et al., 2012: 66; Berville et al., 2013: 79; Borowiec & Salata, 2013: 371; Borowiec, 2014: 168; Lebas et al., 2016: 116; Arcos et al., 2022: 10; Seifert et al., 2024: 57.
- Senior synonym of Tapinoma ambiguum: Wetterer et al., 2007: 24; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 478; Csősz et al., 2011: 58; Legakis, 2011: 24; Czechowski et al., 2012: 68; Seifert, 2012a: 142; Seifert et al., 2024: 57.
Junior synonyms
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Tapinoma ambiguum
Emery, 1925
Obsolete combination(s): Tapinoma erraticum ambiguum
Obsolete combinations
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
- T. m. revolutionis Kratochvíl, 1944
Citations
- Arcos, J.; Chaves, D.; Alarcón, P.; Rosado, Á. 2022. First record of Temnothorax convexus (Forel, 1894) in Portugal (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with an updated checklist of the ants from the country. Sociobiology 69 (2): e7623:1-15. 10.13102/sociobiology.v69i2.7623 PDF
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1968e. Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia. IV. La fauna mirmecologica delle isole Maltesi ed il suo significato ecologico e biogeografico. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 77:408-559. 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
- Berville, L.; Hefetz, A.; Espadaler, X.; Lenoir, A.; Renucci, M.; Blight, O.; Provost, E. 2013. Differentiation of the ant genus Tapinoma from the Mediterranean Basin by species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles. Myrmecological News 18:77-92. PDF
- Boer, P. 2010. Mieren van de Benelux. ′s-Graveland, Netherlands: Stichting Jeugdbondsuitgeverij, 183 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2013. Ants of Greece – additions and corrections (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 24 (3-4):335-401. PDF
- Casevitz-Weulersse, J.; Galkowski, C. 2009. Liste actualisée des fourmis de France (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 114:475-510. PDF
- Csősz, S.; Markó, B.; Gallé, L. 2011. The myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Hungary: an updated checklist. North-Western Journal of Zoology 7 (1):55-62. PDF
- Czechowski, W.; Radchenko, A.; Czechowska, W.; Vepsäläinen, K. 2012. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Poland with reference to the myrmecofauna of Europe. (Fauna Poloniae n.s. 4). Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 496 pp.
- Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
- Emery, C. 1925b. Revision des espèces paléarctiques du genre Tapinoma. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32:45-64. PDF
- Forel, A. 1895e. Südpalaearctische Ameisen. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 9:227-234. PDF
- Lapeva-Gjonova, A.; Antonova, V.; Radchenko, A. G.; Atanasova, M. 2010. Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria. ZooKeys 62:1-124. PDF
- Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
- Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. PDF
- Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2024. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 2. Dolichoderinae. Zootaxa 5432 (2):279-288. 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.2.7 PDF
- Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.]. Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
- Seifert, B. 2012a. Clarifying naming and identification of the outdoor species of the ant genus Tapinoma Förster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Europe north of the Mediterranean region with description of a new species. Myrmecological News 16:139-147. PDF
- Seifert, B.; Kaufmann, B.; Fraysse, L. 2024. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic species of the ant genus Tapinoma Mayr 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 5435 (1):1-74. 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5435.1.1 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
- Wetterer, J. K.; Espadaler, X.; Wetterer, A. L.; Aguin-Pombo, D.; Franquinho-Aguiar, A. M. 2007. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Madeiran archipelago. Sociobiology 49 (3):265-297. PDF
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