Tetraponera continua

Tetraponera continua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Pseudomyrmecinae
Genus:	Tetraponera
Species group:	allaborans
Species:	T. continua
Binomial name
Tetraponera continua (Forel, 1907) Specimen Labels
Synonyms
Sima claveaui Santschi, 1913

Identification

A member of the Tetraponera allaborans species-group.

Keys including this Species

• Key to Afrotropical Tetraponera
• Key to Afrotropical Tetraponera species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Ethiopia (type locality), Gambia, Senegal (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Sima claveaui. Worker. Specimen code casent0915527. Photographer Alexandra Westrich, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMB, Basel, Switzerland.

Nomenclature

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

• continua. Sima penzigi subsp. continua Forel, 1907c: 138 (w.) ETHIOPIA.
  • Combination in S. (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921f: 28; in Tetraponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 800.
  • Status as species: Ward, 2006: 121; Chomicki et al., 2015: Figure S1.
  • Senior synonym of claveaui: Ward, 2022: 27.
• claveaui. Sima claveaui Santschi, 1913c: 304 (w.) SENEGAL.
  • Combination in S. (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921f: 27.
  • Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 797.
  • Junior synonym of continua: Ward, 2022: 27.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

References

• Chomicki, G.; Ward, P. S.; Renner, S. S. 2015. Macroevolutionary assembly of ant/plant symbioses: Pseudomyrmex ants and their ant-housing plants in the Neotropics. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B 282:20152200 (DOI:10.1098/rspb.2015.2200).
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 94: 1-94 + 7 (page 28, Combination in S. (Tetraponera))
• Forel, A. 1907f. Fourmis d'Ethiopie récoltées par M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en 1905. Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 26: 129-144 (page 138, worker described)
• Ward, P. S. 2006. The ant genus Tetraponera in the Afrotropical region: synopsis of species groups and revision of the T. ambigua-group. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 8:119-130.
• Ward, P. S. 2022. The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species. Zootaxa 5102 (1):1-70 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1).
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922j. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 711-1004 (page 800, Combination in Tetraponera)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• Borowiec L., and S. Salata. 2018. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Gambia (Western Africa). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 26: 1-13.
• Diame L., B. Taylor, R. Blatrix, J. F. Vayssieres, J. Y. Rey, I. Grechi, and K. Diarra. 2017. A preliminary checklist of the ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) fauna of Senegal. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 5(15): 1-16.
• Forel A. 1907. Fourmis d'Ethiopie récoltées par M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en 1905. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 26: 129-144.
• Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004