Tetramorium browni

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

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Tetramorium browni Bolton, 1980 valid

Tetramorium browni Bolton, 1980: 337 (w.) GHANA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana: Tafo (= New Tafo, Eastern Region, Akim District, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana), 21.x.1970, rotten log (B. Bolton). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901208. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, NHMB.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 405; Bharti et al., 2016: 45 (error).
[Note: the entry in Bharti et al., 2016: 45, should be for Tetramorium browni Tiwari, 2000, an Indian species, not for Tetramorium browni Bolton, 1980, which is restricted to West Africa.]

Citations

Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. 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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