Tetramorium costatus willowsi

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

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Tetramorium costatus willowsi (Wheeler, 1934) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium aspersum (Smith, 1865)

Xiphomyrmex costatus subsp. willowsi Wheeler, 1934a: 177 (w.) SOLOMON IS (Malaita I., San Cristoval I.). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type localities: 1 syntype Solomon Is: Malaita I., Uras Cove, 28.v.1933 (M. Willows), and 1 syntype San Cristoval I., Star Harbour, 1.vii.1933 (M. Willows). Primary type depositories: CASC, MCZC.

Subspecies of Tetramorium costatus: Wheeler, 1935g: 31.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium aspersum: Bolton, 1977: 86; Bolton, 1995b: 416.

Obsolete combinations

Xiphomyrmex costatus willowsi

Citations

Bolton, B. 1977. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Oriental and Indo-Australian regions, and in Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 36:67-151. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Wheeler, W. M. 1934a. Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition, 1933. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)21:173-181. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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