Talk:Teleutomyrmex

Re: http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Teleutomyrmex "TELEUTOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Tetramorium] Teleutomyrmex Kutter, 1950: 82. Type-species: Teleutomyrmex schneideri, by original designation. Teleutomyrmex junior synonym of Tetramorium: Ward et al., 2014: 15."

Something is wrong here: Teleutomyrmex schneideri KUTTER is not a synonym of Tetramorium schneideri depicted here! This “Tetramorium schneideri” is an ordinary, independent Tetramorium species.

The original Teleutomyrmex schneideri KUTTER is a morphologically highly derived species, lacking any workers and living as an inquiline within nests of Tetramorium (a species belonging to the T. caespitum/impurum complex).

The replacement name for Tel. schneideri KUTTER given by Ward et al. is Tetramorium inquilinum Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2014. The link http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Teleutomyrmex should refer to Tetr. inquilinum instead of Tetr. schneideri. (I feel unable to make all necessary corrections; sorry. And I dislike the confusion that has been created by Ward et al. 2014 with synonymizing so many parasitic genera with their host genera.) A. Buschinger