Tetramorium pusillum triste

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

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Tetramorium pusillum triste Wheeler, 1922 junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium mossamedense Forel, 1901

Tetramorium pusillum var. triste Wheeler, 1922: 899 (w.) ZIMBABWE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“Rhodesia”): Bulawayo, 19.x.1913 (G. Arnold). Primary type depository: NHMB.

[First available use of Tetramorium pusillum mossamedense tristis Santschi, 1917b; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1924f: 282; Arnold, 1926: 272.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium mossamedense: Bolton, 1980: 314; Bolton, 1995b: 415.

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
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. 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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Formicidae subfamilies Myrmicinae tribes Crematogastrini genera Tetramorium species Tetramorium pusillum subspecies Tetramorium pusillum triste infrasubspecies

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