Checklist of Technomyrmex species

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Technomyrmex
Dolichoderinae
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Technomyrmex albipes
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Distribution
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Species Richness
Statistics
Valid Species 96
Invalid Species 42
Fossils 6
Countries Occupied 96
Year Described 1872
First Species Described 1860
Last Species Described 2018

The following species and subspecies belong to the genus Technomyrmex. Synonyms are listed under their senior names. For valid names only see Technomyrmex species and for distribution information see Technomyrmex species by Country.

A

albicoxis Donisthorpe, 1945 (Indonesia, New Guinea)
albipes (Smith, F., 1861) (Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Cameroun, Cayman Islands, China, Cook Islands, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Denmark, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mozambique, New Guinea, Niue, Philippines, Pitcairn, Republic of Korea, Réunion, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tokelau, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Yemen)
   • Crematogaster forticulus Walker, 1859
   • Formica detorquens Walker, 1859
   • Tapinoma albitarse Motschoulsky, 1863
   • Tapinoma nigrum Mayr, 1862
   • Technomyrmex albipes bruneipes Forel, 1895
   • Technomyrmex albipes wedda Forel, 1913

andrei Emery, 1899 (Angola, Cameroun, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda)
   • Engramma allecta Stitz, 1916
   • Engramma wolfi Forel, 1916
   • Technomyrmex andrei schereri Forel, 1911
   • Technomyrmex zumpti Santschi, 1937

antennus Zhou, 2001 (China)
anterops Fisher & Bolton, 2007 (Madagascar)
antonii Forel, 1902 (Australia)
arnoldinus Forel, 1913 (United Republic of Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
australops Bolton, 2007 (Australia)

B

bicolor Emery, 1893 (China, India, Sri Lanka)
briani Sharaf, 2009 (Saudi Arabia)
brunneus Forel, 1895 (Borneo, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan)
   • Technomyrmex modiglianii angustior Forel, 1912

butteli Forel, 1913 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand)

C

camerunensis Emery, 1899 (Botswana, Cameroun, Central African Republic, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Namibia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
cedarensis Forel, 1915 (Australia)
certus Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia)
cheesmanae Donisthorpe, 1945 (Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea)
convexifrons Karavaiev, 1926 (Indonesia)
curiosus Fisher & Bolton, 2007 (Madagascar)

D

difficilis Forel, 1892 (Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Hawaii, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Lesser Antilles, Madagascar, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, United States, Vietnam)
   • Technomyrmex mayri nitidulans Santschi, 1930

docens Fisher & Bolton, 2007 (Comoros, Madagascar)
dubius Bolton, 2007 (Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Sulawesi)

E

elatior Forel, 1902 (Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Vietnam)
   • Technomyrmex albipes cordiformis Viehmeyer, 1916

F

fisheri Bolton, 2007 (Madagascar)
formosensis Yamane, Leong, & Lin, 2018 (Taiwan)
fornax Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia)
fulvus (Wheeler, W.M., 1934) (Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama)
   • Tapinoma fulvum sublucidum Wheeler, W.M., 1934

furens Bolton, 2007 (Australia)

G

gaudens Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia)
gibbosus Wheeler, W.M., 1906 (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Republic of Korea)
gilvus Donisthorpe, 1941 (New Guinea)
gorgona Fernández & Guerrero, 2008 (Colombia)
grandis Emery, 1887 (Borneo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines)
   • Technomyrmex grandis bandarensis Forel, 1913

H

hades Bolton, 2007 (Indonesia, Sulawesi)
horni Forel, 1912 (Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Krakatau Islands, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand)
horrens Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia)
hostilis Bolton, 2007 (United Republic of Tanzania)

I

ilgi (Forel, 1910) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
   • Engramma gowdeyi Wheeler, W.M., 1922
   • Engramma stygium Santschi, 1911

impressus Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia)
incisus (Mukerjee, 1930) (India)
indicus Bolton, 2007 (India)
innocens Fisher & Bolton, 2007 (Madagascar, Mayotte)

J

jocosus Forel, 1910 (Australia, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Norfolk Island)

K

kraepelini Forel, 1905 (Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Guam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Palau, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand)

L

lasiops Bolton, 2007 (Cameroun, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Uganda)
laurenti (Emery, 1899) (Cameroun, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon)
   • Engramma kohli Forel, 1916
   • Engramma laurenti congolensis Forel, 1916

lisae Forel, 1913 (Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia)
lujae (Forel, 1905) (Cameroun, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon)
   • Engramma griseopubens Wheeler, W.M., 1922
   • Engramma lujae pulliceps Santschi, 1926
   • Engramma lujae wasmanni Forel, 1916

M

madecassus Forel, 1897 (Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte)
   • Technomyrmex madecassus fusciventris Forel, 1907

mandibularis Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia)
mayri Forel, 1891 (Madagascar, Seychelles)
menozzii (Donisthorpe, 1936) (Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
metandrei Bolton, 2007 (Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo)
mixtus Bolton, 2007 (New Guinea)
modiglianii Emery, 1900 (Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand)
   • Technomyrmex modiglianii javanus Forel, 1905

moerens Santschi, 1913 (Cameroun, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania)
   • Technomyrmex albipes congolensis Karavaiev, 1926
   • Technomyrmex longiscapus Weber, 1943
   • Technomyrmex moerens nigricans Santschi, 1930
   • Technomyrmex nequitus Bolton Bolton, 1995
   • Technomyrmex nequitus Weber Weber, 1943

montaseri Sharaf, Collingwood & Aldawood, 2011 (Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
myops Bolton, 2007 (Malaysia)

N

nigriventris Santschi, 1910 (Cameroun, Central African Republic, Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda)
nitens Bolton, 2007 (Australia)

O

obscurior Wheeler, W.M., 1928 (China, Myanmar, Nepal)

P

pallipes (Smith, F., 1876) (Angola, Central African Republic, Comoros, Gambia, Italy, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania)
   • Technomyrmex albipes foreli Emery, 1893
   • Technomyrmex albipes truncicolus Weber, 1943
   • Technomyrmex atrichosus Viehmeyer, 1922
   • Technomyrmex brevicornis Santschi, 1930
   • Technomyrmex foreli affinis Santschi, 1930
   • Technomyrmex primroseae Donisthorpe, 1949

parandrei Bolton, 2007 (Gabon)
parviflavus Bolton, 2007 (Cameroun, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Uganda)
pilipes Emery, 1899 (Cameroun)
pluto Bolton, 2007 (Indonesia, Sulawesi)
pratensis (Smith, F., 1860) (Borneo, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
   • Tapinoma setiferum Emery, 1900
   • Tapinoma setiferum javanum Forel, 1905

prevaricus Bolton, 2007 (Indonesia, New Guinea)

Q

quadricolor (Wheeler, W.M., 1930) (Australia)

R

rector Bolton, 2007 (India)
reductus Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia)
rotundiceps Karavaiev, 1926 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia)
rusticus Santschi, 1930 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

S

schimmeri Viehmeyer, 1916 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)
schoedli Bolton, 2007 (Gabon)
schoutedeni Forel, 1910 (Cameroun, Democratic Republic of Congo)
   • Engramma zimmeri okiavoensis Forel, 1916

semiruber Emery, 1899 (Cameroun, Uganda)
senex Bolton, 2007 (Cameroun, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana)
setosus Collingwood, 1985 (Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
shattucki Bolton, 2007 (Australia)
sophiae Forel, 1902 (Australia)
strenuus Mayr, 1872 (Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)
subgracilis Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia)
sundaicus (Emery, 1900) (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines)
sycorax Bolton, 2007 (Gabon, Mozambique)

T

tatius Bolton, 2007 (Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia)
taylori (Santschi, 1930) (Mozambique)
textor Forel, 1909 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore)
tonsuratus Bolton, 2007 (New Guinea)
transiens Forel, 1913 (Indonesia)

V

vapidus Bolton, 2007 (Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania)
vexatus (Santschi, 1919) (Gibraltar, Morocco)
vitiensis Mann, 1921 (Bangladesh, Belgium, Borneo, Comoros, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mayotte, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, United States, Vanuatu)
   • Technomyrmex albipes rufescens Santschi, 1928

voeltzkowi (Forel, 1907) (Botswana, Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
   • Tapinoma voeltzkowi rhodesiae Forel, 1913

W

wheeleri (Emery, 1913) (Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines)
   • Iridomyrmex smithi Wheeler, W.M., 1909
   • Technomyrmex niasensis Menozzi, 1932

Y

yamanei Bolton, 2007 (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)

Z

zimmeri (Forel, 1911) (United Republic of Tanzania)

Fossil Species

C

caritatis Brandão & Baroni Urbani, 1999 (Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene))

D

deletus Emery, 1891 (Sicilian amber, Italy (Late/Upper Miocene))

H

hispaniolae (Wilson, 1985) (Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene))

K

kemaensis Perfilieva, 2022 (Velikaya Kema, Primorye, Russia (Chattian, Oligocene))

S

septentrionalis Zhang, J., 1989 (Shanwang, China (Early Miocene))
svojtkai Perrichot & Engel, 2022 (Ethiopian amber (Early Miocene))