Protonym: Tapinoma erraticum var. madeirense
Authorship Forel, 1895e: 231
Forms w.
Bioregion Palearctic
Locality PORTUGAL (Madeira)
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype queen (by designation of Wetterer et al., 2007: 24). Primary type locality: lectotype Portugal: Madeira, Ribeira Brava (P.E. Schmitz). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 16 paralectotype workers, 14 paralectotype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: HNHM, MCZC, MHNG, NHMB, SIZK.
Type notes 1) The original description does not mention queens. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 85, cites 3 worker syntypes in NHMB. 3) Shattuck, 1994: 144, cites 43 worker syntypes (7 MCZC, 33 MHNG, 3 NHMB). 4) Seifert, 2012a: 140, cites 16 worker, 14 queen paralectotypes in MHNG. 5) Radchenko et al., 2024: 285, cite 2 worker paralectotypes in SIZK. 6) Wetterer et al., 2007: 24, mention some ‘paralectotypes’ from Curral (presumably Curral das Freiras (Camara de Lobos)), a locality not mentioned in the original description.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Tapinoma erraticum madeirense Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895
Original combination
Tapinoma madeirense Species Valid