Tetramorium proximum

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

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Tetramorium proximum Bolton, 1979 valid

Tetramorium proximum Bolton, 1979: 137, figs. 5, 6 (w.q.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: Périnet & vic., rainfor, rot. wd., 18.iii.1969 (W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0906146. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 10 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 413; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014c: 90 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1979. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Malagasy region and in the New World. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 38:129-181. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014c. The hyper-diverse ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Malagasy region – taxonomic revision of the T. naganum, T. plesiarum, T. schaufussii, and T. severini species groups. ZooKeys 413:1-170. PDF

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