Tetramorium taurocaucasicum

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Tetramorium taurocaucasicum Arnol'di, 1968 junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetramorium chefketi Forel, 1911

Tetramorium taurocaucasicum Arnol'di, 1968b: 1813, fig. 12 (w.q.m.) UKRAINE (Crimea). Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ukraine: Crimea, Gurzuf, 16.vi.1948 (K. Arnoldi). Primary type depository: ZMUM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 14 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens, 3 paratype males (numbers from Csősz et al., 2007: 18). Secondary type locality: same data as holotype, and from Yalta (Crimea), Tuapse and Novorossiysk (Krasnodar Krai, Russia), and Georgia. Secondary type depository: ZMUM.

Status as species: Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 545 (in key); Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002: 10.
Junior synonym of Tetramorium forte: Dlussky et al., 1990: 202; Radchenko, 1992b: 51; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 152; Arakelian, 1994: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 415; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 144 (error).
Junior synonym of Tetramorium chefketi: Güsten et al., 2006: 16; Csősz et al., 2007: 18; Radchenko, 2016: 248.

Citations

Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
Arnol'di, K. V. 1968b. Important additions to the myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR, and descriptions of new forms. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 47:1800-1822. PDF
Arnol'di, K. V.; Dlussky, G. M. 1978. Superfam. Formicoidea. 1. Fam. Formicidae - ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 519-556 in: Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) 1978. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 1. [In Russian.]. Opredeliteli Faune SSSR 119:3-584.
Atanassov, N.; Dlussky, G. M. 1992. Fauna of Bulgaria. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. [In Bulgarian.]. Fauna na Bûlgariya 22:1-310.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Collingwood, C.; Heatwole, H. 2002 ("2000"). Ants from northwestern China (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 103:1-24. PDF
Csősz, S.; Radchenko, A.; Schulz, A. 2007. Taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic Tetramorium chefketi species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1405:1-38. PDF
Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. PDF
Güsten, R.; Schulz, A.; Sanetra, M. 2006. Redescription of Tetramorium forte Forel, 1904 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a western Mediterranean ant species. Zootaxa 1310:1-35. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 1992b. Ants of the genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR fauna. Report 2. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 71(8):50-58. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.

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