Zatapinoma

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Zatapinoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Tapinomini
Genus: Zatapinoma
Wheeler, W.M., 1928
Type species
Zatapinoma annandalei, now Tapinoma annandalei

Tapinoma annandalei casent0172851 profile 1.jpg

Tapinoma annandalei casent0172851 dorsal 1.jpg

Specimen labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • ZATAPINOMA [junior synonym of Tapinoma]
    • Zatapinoma Wheeler, W.M. 1928a: 20. Type-species: Zatapinoma annandalei, by original designation.
    • Zatapinoma junior synonym of Tapinoma: Shattuck, 1992c: 146.


References

  • Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 26, Zatapinoma as junior synonym of Tapinoma)
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 91, Zatapinoma as junior synonym of Tapinoma)
  • Donisthorpe, H. 1943h. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [concl.]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 721-737 (page 737, Zatapinoma in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini)
  • Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21: 1-181 (page 146, Zatapinoma as junior synonym of Tapinoma)
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1928a. Zatapinoma, a new genus of ants from India. Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club 10: 19-23 (page 20, Zatapinoma as genus)