Technomyrmex laurenti

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Technomyrmex laurenti (Emery, 1899) valid

Tapinoma laurenti Emery, 1899d: 487 (w.q.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, CAMEROON. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers, 2 syntype queens. Primary type localities: 1 worker, 2 queens Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo”): (no further data) (A. Laurent) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 922; no lectotype designated), 1 worker Cameroon: (no further data) (L. Conradt). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MRAC, MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0905123. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 163, cites 1 worker syntype in MHNG.

Combination in Engramma: Emery, 1913a: 38.
Combination in Technomyrmex: Shattuck, 1992c: 161.
Status as species: Emery, 1913a: 38; Wheeler, 1922: 202 (in key), 922; Shattuck, 1994: 163; Bolton, 1995b: 402; Bolton, 2007b: 25 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Technomyrmex laurenti congolensis Forel, 1916: Bolton, 2007b: 25.
Senior synonym of Technomyrmex kohli: Bolton, 2007b: 25.

Junior synonyms

Technomyrmex kohli (Forel, 1916)
Obsolete combination(s): Engramma kohli
Technomyrmex laurenti congolensis (Forel, 1916)
Obsolete combination(s): Engramma laurenti congolensis

Obsolete combinations

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2007b. Taxonomy of the dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 35(1):1-150. PDF
Emery, C. 1899d. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43:459-504. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181. 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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