Tetramorium tenebrosum

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

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Tetramorium tenebrosum Arnold, 1926 valid

Tetramorium (Triglyphothrix) constanciae var. tenebrosus Arnold, 1926: 275, fig. 79a,a' (w.q.m.) MOZAMBIQUE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), syntype queen, syntype male. Primary type locality: Mozambique (“Portuguese E.A.”): Amatongas Forest, ii.1917, and 12.ii.1917 (G. Arnold). Primary type depositories: BMNH, SAMC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901155.

Combination in Triglyphothrix: Bolton, 1976: 337.
Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1985: 247.
Status as species: Bolton, 1976: 337 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 415; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 218.

Obsolete combinations

Tetramorium constanciae tenebrosum

Citations

Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 34:281-379. PDF
Bolton, B. 1985. The ant genus Triglyphothrix Forel a synonym of Tetramorium Mayr. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 19:243-248. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF

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