Trichomyrmex kempi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India.

Nomenclature

 * . Monomorium (Parholcomyrmex) kempi Mukerjee, 1930: 154, fig. 2 (w.) (no state data).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several specimens”).
 * Type-locality: Country/State indeterminate: Seistan desert, Labi Baring (N. Annandale & S.W. Kemp).
 * [Note: Seistan desert lies in eastern Iran, southern Afghanistan, and western Pakistan. Bharti, Guénard, et al. 2016: 39, record the species as Indian (Sikkim, West Bengal).]
 * Type-depository: unknown (no type-material known to exist).
 * [Note: Mukerjee says that the specimens are deposited in “Zoological Survey of India, Indian Museum, Calcutta”, now NZSI, but they have apparently been lost.]

Taxonomic Notes
Provisional combination in Trichomyrmex as original description cites Parholcomyrmex.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Bharti H. 2011. List of Indian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Halteres 3: 79-87.
 * Mukerjee D. 1930. Report on a collection of ants in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 34: 149-163.