Tapinoma melanocephalum

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

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Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) valid

Formica melanocephala Fabricius, 1793: 353 (w.) FRENCH GUIANA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Guerrero, 2018: 499). Primary type locality: neotype Colombia: Magdalena, Santa Marta, Calabazo, roadside to Pueblito-PNN Tayrona (11.2825°N, -74.0239°W), 22.i.2017, series RJG01286 (R. Guerrero). Primary type depository: ICNB. Type notes: 1) Guerrero also designates 10 workers, 2 queens, 2 males from the same series as “paraneotypes”, a category not recognised by ICZN. 2) Original type data: worker(s) French Guiana: Cayenne, Mus. Dom. Bosc. (no collector’s name), no type material known to exist (Zimsen, 1964: 472).

Neotype designation: Guerrero, 2018: 499.
[Misspelled as melanorephalum by Santschi, 1924c: 112.]
Emery, 1887a: 249 (m.); Forel, 1891c: 102 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 197 (l.); Crozier, 1970a: 119 (k.)
Combination in Lasius: Fabricius, 1804: 417.
Combination in Myrmica: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 185.
Combination in Micromyrma: Roger, 1862b: 258.
Combination in Tapinoma: Mayr, 1862: 651; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165.
Combination in Tapinoma (Micromyrma): Santschi, 1928e: 475.
Status as species: Latreille, 1802a: 269; Fabricius, 1804: 417; Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 185; Smith, 1858a: 46; Roger, 1862b: 258; Roger, 1863b: 14; Mayr, 1863a: 455; Mayr, 1876: 83; Forel, 1881: 3; Mayr, 1884: 31; Mayr, 1886c: 359; Emery, 1887a: 249; Forel, 1891c: 101 (redescription); André, 1892c: 51; Forel, 1893j: 352; André, 1893b: 152; Dalla Torre, 1893: 164; Emery, 1893f: 89; Emery, 1893g: 194; Emery, 1893h: 249; Emery, 1893i: 267; Forel, 1895a: 49; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Emery, 1895g: 337; Pergande, 1896: 870; Mayr, 1897: 432; Emery, 1897: 573; Forel, 1899a: 120; Forel, 1899b: 101; Emery, 1900: 696; Emery, 1901h: 121; Forel, 1902j: 476; Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 304; Wheeler, 1905c: 131; Emery, 1906c: 177; Wheeler, 1907b: 275; Forel, 1907h: 9; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Forel, 1908a: 64; Wheeler, 1909c: 272; Wheeler, 1909d: 336, 342; Yano, 1910a: 421; Wheeler, 1911a: 29; Wheeler, 1912a: 46; Forel, 1912l: 164; Emery, 1913a: 41; Forel, 1913g: 197; Forel, 1913l: 93; Wheeler, 1913b: 498; Wheeler, 1913e: 242; Wheeler, 1913f: 237; Santschi, 1914d: 377; Emery, 1914f: 420; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 342; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 142; Mann, 1916: 473; Wheeler, 1916f: 330; Crawley, 1916b: 375; Donisthorpe, 1918c: 167; Wheeler, 1919d: 275; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Santschi, 1920h: 172; Mann, 1921: 473; Wheeler, 1922: 924, 1034; Wheeler, 1922e: 15; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Wheeler, 1923c: 4; Wheeler, 1924b: 110; Crawley, 1924a: 403; Santschi, 1924c: 112; Mann, 1925b: 6; Mukerjee & Ribeiro, 1925: 207; Karavaiev, 1926d: 441; Stärcke, 1926a: 118 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1927c: 395; Wheeler, 1927d: 7; Wheeler, 1927h: 99; Wheeler, 1928c: 30; Cheesman & Crawley, 1928: 522; Santschi, 1928c: 70; Wheeler, 1929g: 8; Wheeler, 1929h: 57; Karavaiev, 1930a: 213; Menozzi, 1930b: 114; Menozzi, 1930h: 328; Menozzi & Russo, 1930: 165; Smith, 1930a: 5; Wheeler, 1930k: 73; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 449; Wheeler, 1932a: 13; Wheeler, 1932g: 17; Wheeler, 1934a: 178; Wheeler, 1934i: 16; Donisthorpe, 1935: 634; Menozzi, 1935b: 200; Wheeler, 1935g: 36; Wheeler, 1936c: 204; Wheeler, 1937a: 23; Smith, 1937: 861; Teranishi, 1940: 59; Yasumatsu, 1940c: 68; Donisthorpe, 1941h: 60; Santschi, 1941: 277; Wheeler, 1942: 252; Menozzi, 1942a: 178; Eidmann, 1944: 459, 469; Stärcke, 1944d: xviii; Donisthorpe, 1948g: 139; Weber, 1948b: 85; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1951c: 838; Azuma, 1951: 88; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 192; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1958c: 141; Kempf, 1961b: 520; Wilson, 1962c: 18; Linsley & Usinger, 1966: 175; Baltazar, 1966: 263; Smith, 1967a: 365; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 80; Taylor, 1967b: 1094; Kempf, 1972b: 247; Alayo, 1974: 24 (in key); Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 8 (in key); Taylor, 1976a: 87; Taylor, 1976b: 197; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Smith, 1979: 1421; Collingwood, 1979: 36; Onoyama, 1980a: 199; Collingwood, 1985: 243; Taylor, 1987a: 77; Deyrup et al., 1989: 99; Morisita et al., 1991: 7; Wu & Wang, 1992c: 1311; Perrault, 1993: 333; Dlussky, 1994a: 55; Shattuck, 1994: 147; Douwes, 1995: 91; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 116; Dorow, 1996a: 82; Collingwood et al., 1997: 509; Tiwari, 1999: 83; Deyrup et al., 2000: 300; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 342; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Wetterer, 2002: 129; Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 218; Blard et al., 2003: 133; Deyrup, 2003: 47; Imai et al., 2003: 84; Lin & Wu, 2003: 60; Wetterer & Vargo, 2003: 417; Collingwood et al., 2004: 486; Ghosh et al., 2005: 10; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 42; Ward, 2005: 27; Wetterer, 2006: 415; Wetterer et al., 2007: 31; Wild, 2007b: 25; Clouse, 2007b: 206; Don, 2007: 191; Framenau & Thomas, 2008: 59; Heterick, 2009: 58; Terayama, 2009: 199; Wetterer, 2009b: 23; Boer, 2010: 16; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 7; Collingwood et al., 2011: 415; Csősz et al., 2011: 58; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 34; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 254; Ellison et al., 2012: 105; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 26; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 37; Sharaf et al., 2012a: 40 (in key); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 202; Sarnat et al., 2013: 69; Borowiec, 2014: 168 (see note in bibliography); Ramage, 2014: 154; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 109; Bharti et al., 2016: 19; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 22; Wetterer et al., 2016: 20; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Sharaf et al., 2017: 5; Deyrup, 2017: 176; Steiner et al., 2017: 17; Sharaf et al., 2018: 3; Guerrero, 2018: 499 (redescription); García-Avendaño & Guerrero, 2018: 226 (redescription); Werner et al., 2018: 7; Dekoninck et al., 2019: 1158; Guerrero, 2019: 717; Rasheed et al., 2019: 428; Lubertazzi, 2019: 184; Dias et al., 2020: 19; Sharaf et al., 2020: 536; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 17; Abdel-Dayem et al., 2021: 4; Seifert, 2022: 38; Wang et al., 2022: 27; Sharaf et al., 2022: 6; Herrera et al., 2024: 158; Jallow & Gómez, 2024: 9; Cover & Rabeling, 2024: 113 (in key); Sharaf et al., 2024: 1711.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma melanocephalum australis: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 80; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 401; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Imai et al., 2003: 84; Ramage, 2014: 154; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 38.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma melanocephalum coronatum: Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 38.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma domesticum: Pergande, 1896: 870 (by implication); Forel, 1899b: 101 (by implication).
Senior synonym of Tapinoma familiaris: Emery, 1887a: 249; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Pergande, 1896: 870; Forel, 1899b: 101; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Emery, 1913a: 41; Wheeler, 1919d: 276; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Wheeler, 1922: 925; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 401; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Imai et al., 2003: 84; Radchenko, 2016: 93; Guerrero, 2018: 499.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma jerdoni: Seifert, 2022: 39.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma luffae: Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 39.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma melanocephalum malesianum: Guerrero, 2018: 500; Seifert, 2022: 38.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma nana: Emery, 1892c: 166; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Pergande, 1896: 870; Forel, 1899b: 101; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Emery, 1913a: 41; Wheeler, 1919d: 275; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Wheeler, 1922: 925; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Tiwari, 1999: 83; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Guerrero, 2018: 499.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma pellucida: Mayr, 1886c: 359; Forel, 1891c: 102; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Pergande, 1896: 870; Forel, 1899b: 101; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Emery, 1913a: 41; Wheeler, 1919d: 275; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Wheeler, 1922: 925; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Imai et al., 2003: 84; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Guerrero, 2018: 499; Seifert, 2022: 38.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma wallacei: unavailable name (proposed in synonymy), and also unnecessary (second) replacement name: new synonym (unpublished).
Senior synonym of Tapinoma wallacei: Seifert, 2022: 39.

Formicidae subfamilies Dolichoderinae tribes Tapinomini genera Tapinoma species Tapinoma melanocephalum subspecies

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