Tetramorium simillimum isis

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Tetramorium simillimum isis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tetramorium altivagans)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: Tetramorium simillimum isis
Weber, 1943

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

Nomenclature

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

  • isis. Tetramorium simillimum subsp. isis Weber, 1943c: 373 (w.) SUDAN. Junior synonym of altivagans: Bolton, 1980: 305.

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 305, Junior synonym of altivagans)
  • Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389 (page 373, worker described)