Protonym: Tapinoma collina
Authorship Foerster, 1850a: 43
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality GERMANY
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Germany: Siebengebirge (A. Foerster), Germany: nr Boppard (A. Foerster), Germany: Aachen (A. Foerster), Germany: Schneeberg, nr Vaels (A. Foerster). Primary type depository: unknown.
Type notes 1) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 78, Foerster’s formicid types are in MNHU, but Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271, state that “According to our own search in German collections type material of Förster is completely destroyed”. 2) Seifert et al., 2024: 34, state that all syntypes are "obviously lost".
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tapinoma collina Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798)
Original combination