Tetramorii

Tetramorii
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Crematogastrini)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Tetramorii Emery, 1895
Type genus
Tetramorium

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

Nomenclature

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

• TETRAMORIINI [junior synonym of Crematogastrini]
  • Tetramorii Emery, 1895j: 770. Type-genus: Tetramorium Mayr, 1855: 423.

Taxonomic History

• Tetramoriini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Emery, 1895j: 770 [Tetramorii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 141 [Tetramorii]; Ashmead, 1905b: 383 [Tetramoriini]; Emery, 1914a: 38; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 69; Arnold, 1917: 271; Forel, 1917: 245; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 659; Emery, 1924d: 271; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 62, 224.
• Tetramoriini as senior synonym of Anergatini and Teleutomyrmecini: Bolton, 1994: 106.
• Tetramoriini as junior synonym of Crematogastrini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

Taxonomic References

Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 141 (diagnosis); Emery, 1914a: 38, 42 (diagnosis (in key), synoptic classification); Forel, 1917: 245 (synoptic classification); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 670 (genera key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 893, 1030 (Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1924d: 271 (diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 57 (larvae, review and synthesis); Bolton, 1976: 289 (diagnosis, revision of tribe, genera key); Kugler, C. 1978a: 442 (sting structure); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1042 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 16 (catalogue); Sanetra & Buschinger, 2000: 95 (partial phylogeny); Bolton, 2003: 62, 224 (diagnosis, synopsis).