Tetraponera variegata

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Tetraponera variegata (Forel, 1895) valid

Sima grandidieri var. variegata Forel, 1895i: 487 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward, 2009a: 300). Primary type locality: Madagascar: central Madagascar (Sikora). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101046 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG.

Lectotype designation: Ward, 2009a: 300.
Santschi, 1926a: 27 (q.)
Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922: 1014
Subspecies of Tetraponera grandidieri: Emery, 1921c: 24; Wheeler, 1922: 1014; Santschi, 1926a: 27; Bolton, 1995b: 419.
Status as species: Ward, 2009a: 300 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Sima grandidieri variegata

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1895i. Quelques fourmis du centre de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:485-488. PDF
Santschi, F. 1926a. Trois notes myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 95:13-28. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2009a. The ant genus Tetraponera in the Afrotropical region: the T. grandidieri group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18:285-304. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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