Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker (apparently only one specimen described). Primary type locality: Holy Land: (“Syria and Palestine”), ix-x.1860 (
D.J. Hooker & D. Hanbury). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
Type notes:
1)
Santschi, 1921b: 433, notes that according to Donisthorpe, no type material of
Tetramorium punicum is present in
BMNH or
OXUM. 2)
Sanetra et al., 1999: 329 (in text), suggest that
Tetramorium punicum may best be regarded as a
nomen dubium.