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Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895 valid

Tapinoma erraticum var. madeirense Forel, 1895e: 231 (w.) PORTUGAL (Madeira I.). Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype queen (by designation of Wetterer et al., 2007: 24). Primary type locality: lectotype Portugal: Madeira, Ribeira Brava (P.E. Schmitz). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 16 paralectotype workers, 14 paralectotype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: 1) The original description does not mention queens. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 144, cites 43 worker syntypes in MCZC, MHNG, NHMB. 3) Seifert, 2012a: 140, cites 16 worker, 14 queen paralectotypes in MHNG. 4) Wetterer et al., 2007: 24, mention some paralectotypes from Curral (presumably Curral das Freiras (Camara de Lobos)), a locality not mentioned in the original description.

Lectotype designation: Wetterer et al., 2007: 24.
Emery, 1925b: 56 (q.)
Subspecies of Tapinoma erraticum: Ruzsky, 1905b: 481; Emery, 1913a: 40; Emery, 1925b: 56 (redescription); Baroni Urbani, 1968e: 477; Shattuck, 1994: 144; Bolton, 1995b: 400.
Status as species: Wetterer et al., 2007: 24; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 478; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 32; Boer, 2010: 16; Csősz et al., 2011: 58; Legakis, 2011: 24; Seifert, 2012a: 142; Czechowski et al., 2012: 66; Berville et al., 2013: 79; Borowiec & Salata, 2013: 371; Borowiec, 2014: 168; Lebas et al., 2016: 116; Seifert et al., 2024: 57.
Senior synonym of Tapinoma ambiguum: Wetterer et al., 2007: 24; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 478; Csősz et al., 2011: 58; Legakis, 2011: 24; Czechowski et al., 2012: 68; Seifert, 2012a: 142; Seifert et al., 2024: 57.

Junior synonyms

Tapinoma ambiguum Emery, 1925
Obsolete combination(s): Tapinoma erraticum ambiguum

Obsolete combinations

Tapinoma erraticum madeirense

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

T. m. revolutionis Kratochvíl, 1944

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1968e. Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia. IV. La fauna mirmecologica delle isole Maltesi ed il suo significato ecologico e biogeografico. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 77:408-559. PDF
Berville, L.; Hefetz, A.; Espadaler, X.; Lenoir, A.; Renucci, M.; Blight, O.; Provost, E. 2013. Differentiation of the ant genus Tapinoma from the Mediterranean Basin by species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles. Myrmecological News 18:77-92. PDF
Boer, P. 2010. Mieren van de Benelux. ′s-Graveland, Netherlands: Stichting Jeugdbondsuitgeverij, 183 pp.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2013. Ants of Greece – additions and corrections (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 24 (3-4):335-401. PDF
Casevitz-Weulersse, J.; Galkowski, C. 2009. Liste actualisée des fourmis de France (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 114:475-510. PDF
Csősz, S.; Markó, B.; Gallé, L. 2011. The myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Hungary: an updated checklist. North-Western Journal of Zoology 7 (1):55-62. PDF
Czechowski, W.; Radchenko, A.; Czechowska, W.; Vepsäläinen, K. 2012. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Poland with reference to the myrmecofauna of Europe. (Fauna Poloniae n.s. 4). Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 496 pp.
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Emery, C. 1925b. Revision des espèces paléarctiques du genre Tapinoma. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32:45-64. PDF
Forel, A. 1895e. Südpalaearctische Ameisen. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 9:227-234. PDF
Lapeva-Gjonova, A.; Antonova, V.; Radchenko, A. G.; Atanasova, M. 2010. Catalogue of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria. ZooKeys 62:1-124. PDF
Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. PDF
Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.]. Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
Seifert, B. 2012a. Clarifying naming and identification of the outdoor species of the ant genus Tapinoma Förster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Europe north of the Mediterranean region with description of a new species. Myrmecological News 16:139-147. PDF
Seifert, B.; Kaufmann, B.; Fraysse, L. 2024. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic species of the ant genus Tapinoma Mayr 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 5435 (1):1-74. 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5435.1.1 PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Wetterer, J. K.; Espadaler, X.; Wetterer, A. L.; Aguin-Pombo, D.; Franquinho-Aguiar, A. M. 2007. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Madeiran archipelago. Sociobiology 49 (3):265-297. PDF

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