Tetramorium caespitum schultzei

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Tetramorium caespitum schultzei
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tetramorium mossamedense)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: Tetramorium caespitum schultzei
Forel, 1910

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

Nomenclature

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

  • schultzei. Tetramorium caespitum subsp. schultzei Forel, 1910f: 19 (w.) BOTSWANA. Junior synonym of mossamedense: Bolton, 1980: 314.

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 314, Junior synonym of mossamedense)
  • Forel, A. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschr. M (page 19, worker described)