| Authorship |
Cover & Rabeling, 2024:
119, fig. 2
|
| Forms |
aq.m. |
| Bioregion |
Nearctic |
| Locality |
U.S.A. (Utah) |
| Etymology |
In T. inflatiscapus females, the antennal scape reaches its maximum diameter between the mid-point and the antennal insertion instead of posterior to the mid-point as in other Tapinoma. This unique, diagnostic morphological character is emphasized in the species epithet, which is a compound Latin noun in the nominative case used in apposition (inflati is the participle in the genitive case of inflatus + scapus, the noun in the nominative singular case). |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype alate queen. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Utah, Sevier County, Cove Mountain, 13.4 miles south of Glenwood Fish Hatchery on FSR 068, 38.649°N, 111.950°W, 2850 m, 20.vii.2008 (Stefan P. Cover), SPC 7816. Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: MCZENT 00806458. |
| Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: 63 paratype queens, 5 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: CASC, CRC, LACM, MCZC, UCDC. |
