Tetraponera plicatidens
(Santschi, 1926)
junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera sahlbergii (Forel, 1887)
Sima (Tetraponera) plicatidens
Santschi, 1926a:
26 (q.m.)
MADAGASCAR.
Malagasy.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Madagascar: Massif d’Ankaratra, 1200-2000 m., 5.xii.1924 (Descarpentries). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimens: CASENT0101149, CASENT0101150, CASENT0101151.
Type notes:
Ward, 2022: 42, cites 2 queen, 2 male syntypes.
- Combination in Tetraponera: Ward, 1990: 489
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 419.
- Junior synonym of Tetraponera sahlbergii: Ward, 2022: 42.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Santschi, F. 1926a. Trois notes myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 95:13-28. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1990. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids. Systematic Entomology 15:449-489. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 2022. The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species. Zootaxa 5102 (1):1-70. 10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1 PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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- Leptanillinae
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- aethiops
- aitkenii
- allaborans
- amargina
- ambigua
- andrei
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- atra
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- elegans
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- setosa
- †simplex
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