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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
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›
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Tetramorium
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Tetramorium tonganum
Tetramorium
tonganum
Mayr, 1870
valid
Tetramorium tonganum
Mayr, 1870b
: 976 (w.) TONGA. Oceania.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Tonga: Tongatabu (
Godeffroy
). Primary type depository:
NHMW
.
[Misspelled as
tunganum
by
Santschi, 1928a
: 50.]
Santschi, 1928a
: 50 (q.);
Bharti & Kumar, 2012b
: 25 (m.);
Yamane
et al.
, 2022
: 59 (q.)
Status as species:
Mayr, 1876
: 99;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 135;
Emery, 1900
: 691;
Forel, 1901c
: 11;
Dahl, 1901
: 20;
Mann, 1919
: 348;
Mann, 1921
: 459;
Emery, 1924f
: 284;
Santschi, 1928a
: 50;
Cheesman & Crawley, 1928
: 522;
Wheeler, 1932e
: 160;
Wheeler, 1932g
: 17;
Wheeler, 1934i
: 15;
Wheeler, 1935g
: 31;
Wheeler, 1936g
: 14;
Wheeler, 1937a
: 23;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 178;
Wilson, 1962c
: 16;
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b
: 74;
Taylor, 1967b
: 1094;
Taylor, 1976a
: 83;
Bolton, 1977
: 129 (redescription);
Onoyama, 1980a
: 198;
Wang
et al.
, 1988
: 268;
Ogata, 1991b
: 102;
Morisita
et al.
, 1992
: 36;
Dlussky, 1994a
: 55;
Bolton, 1995b
: 415;
Wetterer, 2002
: 128;
Imai
et al.
, 2003
: 134;
Wetterer & Vargo, 2003
: 416;
Wetterer, 2006
: 415;
Clouse, 2007b
: 257;
Pfeiffer
et al.
, 2011
: 54;
Bharti & Kumar, 2012b
: 23 (redescription);
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 57;
Sarnat & Economo, 2012
: 143;
Sarnat
et al.
, 2013
: 72;
Ramage, 2014
: 168;
Liu
et al.
, 2015
: 72;
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 47;
Agavekar
et al.
, 2017
: 37 (in key);
Dias
et al.
, 2020
: 96;
Yamane
et al.
, 2022
: 59;
Wang
et al.
, 2022
: 111.
Senior synonym of
Tetramorium magitae
:
Bolton, 1977
: 129;
Bolton, 1995b
: 415.
Junior synonyms
Tetramorium magitae
Forel, 1911
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viticola
voasary
vohitra
vombis
vony
wadje
wagneri
walshi
wardi
warreni
weitzeckeri
wroughtonii
xanthogaster
xuthum
yammer
yarthiellum
yemene
yerburyi
youngi
yulongense
zambezium
zapyrum
zenatum
zonacaciae
zypidum