Tetramorium caritum

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

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Tetramorium caritum (Bolton, 1986) valid

Rhoptromyrmex caritus Bolton, 1986a: 12, figs. 15, 17 (q.) UGANDA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Uganda: Ruwenzori Range, Ibanda, 4700 ft, 20-21.viii.1952 (D.S. Fletcher). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901031.

Combination in Tetramorium: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 377.

Obsolete combinations

Rhoptromyrmex caritus

Citations

Bolton, B. 1986a. A taxonomic and biological review of the tetramoriine ant genus Rhoptromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 11:1-17. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF

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