Tetramorium akermani

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

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Tetramorium akermani Arnold, 1926 valid

Tetramorium akermani Arnold, 1926: 265, fig. 73 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Pietermaritzburg, 13.viii.1917 (C. Akerman). Primary type depository: BMNH (perhaps also SAMC). Primary type specimen: CASENT0901126.

Status as species: Arnold, 1958: 123; Bolton, 1980: 253 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 404.
Senior synonym of Tetramorium akermani myersi: Bolton, 1980: 253; Bolton, 1995b: 404.

Junior synonyms

Tetramorium akermani myersi Arnold, 1958

Citations

Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
Arnold, G. 1958. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 13. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. B. Natural Sciences 3:119-143. PDF
Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 40:193-384. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.

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