Tetramorium inerme laevigatum

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Tetramorium inerme laevigatum
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Tetramorium aegeum)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: Tetramorium inerme laevigatum
Arnol'di, 1948

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Tetramorium aegeum.

Nomenclature

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

  • laevigatum. Tetramorium inerme subsp. laevigatum Arnol'di, 1948: 211 (w.q.m.) CAUCASUS. [First available use of Tetramorium caespitum subsp. ferox var. levigata Karavaiev, 1926c: 167; unavailable name.] [Junior primary homonym of laevigatum Mayr, above.] First available replacement name: aegeum Radchenko, 1992b: 55; designated by Bolton, 1995b: 403. [Note that a previously proposed replacement name for the unavailable levigata Karavaiev, aequa Baroni Urbani, 1971b: 361, is itself unavailable.] See also: Radchenko & Arakelian, 1990: 376.

References

  • Arnol'di, K. V. 1948a. Ants of Talysh and the Diabar depression. Their importance for the characterization of communities of terrestrial invertebrates and for historical analysis of the fauna. Tr. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 7(2 2: 206-262 (page 211, worker, queen, male described)
  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 403, First available replacement name: aegeum Radchenko, 1992b: 55; designated by Bolton, 1995: 403. [Note that a previously proposed replacement name for the unavailable levigata Karavaiev, aequa Baroni Urbani, 1971b: 361, is unavailable.] )
  • Radchenko, A. G. 1992b. Ants of the genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR fauna. Report 2. Zool. Zh. 71(8 8: 50-58 (page 55, First available replacement name: aegeum)
  • Radchenko, A. G.; Arakelian, G. R. 1990. Ants of the group Tetramorium ferox Ruzsky (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Crimea and the Caucasus. Biol. Zh. Arm. 43: 371-378 (page 376, see also)