Tetramorium neuvillei

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Tetramorium neuvillei
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tetramorium sericeiventre)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: Tetramorium neuvillei
Forel, 1907

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Tetramorium sericeiventre.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • neuvillei. Tetramorium neuvillei Forel, 1907c: 135 (w.) ETHIOPIA. Junior synonym of sericeiventre: Bolton, 1980: 332.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 40: 193-384 (page 332, Junior synonym of sericeiventre)
  • Forel, A. 1907f. Fourmis d'Ethiopie récoltées par M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en 1905. Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 26: 129-144 (page 135, worker described)