Protonym: Tapinoma tenue var. tectum
Authorship Santschi, 1917b: 288
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality SOUTH AFRICA
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal, Durban (H.B. Marley). Primary type depositories: NHMB, NHMUK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0903066, CASENT0911568.
Type notes Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 86, and Shattuck, 1994: 141, cite 3 worker syntypes in NHMB.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tapinoma arnoldi tectum Subspecies Valid
Tapinoma tenue tectum Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tapinoma arnoldi tectum Santschi, 1917
Original combination