Tetramorium quadrispinosum elegans

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

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Tetramorium quadrispinosum elegans Santschi, 1918 junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium sericeiventre Emery, 1877

Tetramorium quadrispinosum st. elegans Santschi, 1918b: 125 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape Prov., Willowmore (H. Brauns). Primary type depositories: BMNH, NHMB. Primary type specimens: CASENT0235206, CASENT0901244.

Subspecies of Tetramorium quadrispinosum: Wheeler, 1922: 900; Emery, 1924f: 282; Santschi, 1937d: 232.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium quadrispinosum eudoxia: Arnold, 1926: 252.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium quadrispinosum: Bolton, 1980: 413.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium sericeiventre: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2011: 34.

Infrasubspecies

T. q. e. benguelense Santschi, 1937

Citations

Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
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
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2011. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region — introduction, definition of species groups, and revision of the T. bicarinatum, T. obesum, T. sericeiventre and T. tosii species groups. Zootaxa 3039:1-72. PDF
Santschi, F. 1918b. Nouveaux Tetramorium africains. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 9:121-132. PDF
Santschi, F. 1937d. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola (2me voyage) 1932-1933. Fourmis angolaises. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 44:211-250. 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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