Tetramorium pleganon

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

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Tetramorium pleganon Bolton, 1979 valid

Tetramorium pleganon Bolton, 1979: 146 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: 84 km. SW Sambava on road to Andapa, 70-160 m., 17.ii.1977, degraded forest, AB 43, strays on path (W.L. & D.E. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0280587.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 412; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012b: 53 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1979. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Malagasy region and in the New World. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 38:129-181. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2012b. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region—taxonomic revision of the T. kelleri and T. tortuosum species groups. Zootaxa 3592:1-85. PDF

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