Tetramorium pusillum bantouana

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

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Tetramorium pusillum bantouana Santschi, 1910 junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium simillimum (Smith, 1851)

Tetramorium pusillum var. bantouana Santschi, 1910c: 382, fig. 10b (w.q.m.) CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Congo (“Congo français”): M’Bamou (A. Weiss). Primary type depositories: MRAC, NHMB, SIZK. Primary type specimen: CASENT0917835.

[Misspelled as Tetramorium pusillum bantuala by Santschi, 1924b: 213.]
Subspecies of Tetramorium pusillum: Wheeler, 1922: 899; Santschi, 1924b: 213; Emery, 1924f: 281.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium simillimum: Bolton, 1980: 320; Bolton, 1995b: 404; Zhou, 2001a: 105.

Infrasubspecies

T. p. b. breve Santschi, 1924

Citations

Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 40:193-384. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Santschi, F. 1910c ("1909"). Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus du Congo français. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 78:349-400. PDF
Santschi, F. 1924b. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides africains et notes diverses. II. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 12:195-224. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF

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