Genus: Tetramorium

518 species, 22 subspecies

Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 PDF: 423 Type-species: Formica caespitum, by subsequent designation of Girard, 1879: 1016. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Tetramorium in Myrmicidae, Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.

Tetramorium in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1855 PDF: 423 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1861 PDF: 61 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 20 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 457 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 130.

Tetramorium in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Forel, 1895b PDF: 125; Forel, 1899b: 52; Kusnezov, 1964 PDF: 57 (anachronism).

Tetramorium in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 141; Emery, 1914e: 42; Arnold, 1917 PDF: 271; Forel, 1917 PDF: 245; Wheeler, 1922: 664; Emery, 1924f PDF: 275; all subsequent authors.

Genus Tetramorium references

Roger, 1863b PDF: 26, 27 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 456 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 20 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1870b PDF: 972 (all species key); André, 1883a: 285 (Europe & Algeria species key); Cresson, 1887: 261 (U.S.A. catalogue); Emery, 1893g PDF: 214 (Triglyphothrix species key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 130, 135 (Tetramorium, Triglyphothrix catalogues); Forel, 1903a PDF: 700, 703 (India & Sri Lanka Tetramorium, Triglyphothrix species keys); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 172, 175 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Triglyphothrix, Tetramorium species keys); Ruzsky, 1905b: 517 (Russian Empire species key); Emery, 1909f PDF: 695 (Palaearctic species key); Emery, 1916a PDF: 195 (Italy species key); Arnold, 1917 PDF: 271, 275, 334, 345 (diagnosis, South Africa Tetramorium (Tetramorium), Tetramorium (Triglyphothrix), Tetramorium (Xiphomyrmex) species keys); Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 106 (France & Belgium species key); Mann, 1919 PDF: 353 (Papuasia Triglyphothrix species key); Wheeler, 1922: 187, 190, 193, 196 (Macromischoides, Tetramorium, Xiphomyrmex, Triglyphothrix diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 886, 889, 893, 906, 909 (Afrotropical Atopula, Macromischoides, Tetramorium, Xiphomyrmex, Triglyphothrix catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1030, 1031, 1032 (Malagasy Tetramorium, Xiphomyrmex, Triglyphothrix catalogues); Emery, 1924f PDF: 242 (Atopula diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f PDF: 272 (Triglyphothrix diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f PDF: 275 (Tetramorium diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f PDF: 286 (Xiphomyrmex diagnosis, catalogue); Santschi, 1924b PDF: 210 (Macromischoides species key); Arnold, 1926 PDF: 241 (South Africa Tetramorium (Tetramorium) species key); Menozzi, 1933b PDF: 74 (Israel species key); Finzi, 1936 PDF: 183 (Egypt species key); Smith, 1938a PDF: 127 (North America Xiphomyrmex species key); Kratochvíl, 1941b: 84 (Central Europe species key); Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 84 (Central Europe species key); Smith, 1943b PDF: 2 (North America species key); Kratochvíl, Novák & Snoflák, 1944 PDF: 76, 95 (Central Europe species key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 290, 293 (North America Tetramorium, Xiphomyrmex species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 174, 178, 179 (Asia Tetramorium, Triglyphothrix, Xiphomyrmex checklists); Brown, 1958h: 27 (New Zealand species); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 227 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 249, 255 (Neotropical Tetramorium, Triglyphothrix catalogues); Alayo, 1974: 18 (Cuba species key); Tarbinsky, 1976 PDF: 105 (Kyrghyzstan species key); Bolton, 1976 PDF: 310, 314, 341 (Triglyphothrix diagnosis, Afrotropical, Oriental & Malesian species revisions, keys); Bolton, 1976 PDF: 359 (Tetramorium diagnosis, review of genus, synonymy); Bolton, 1977 PDF: 72, 133 (Oriental & Malesian, Australia species revisions, keys); Kutter, 1977c: 150 (Switzerland species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 544 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 86 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 82 (Fennoscandia & Denmark species key); Smith, 1979: 1399, 1400 (North America Triglyphothrix, Tetramorium catalogues); Bolton, 1979 PDF: 132, 159 (Malagasy, New World species revisions, keys); Bolton, 1980: 196, 205 (diagnosis, review of genus, Afrotropical species revision, key); Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 262 (Saudi Arabia species key); Gösswald, 1985: 311 (Germany species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 88 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 78 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 277 (Balkans species key); Wang, Xiao & Wu, 1988: 264 (China species key); Radchenko & Arakelian, 1990 PDF: 371 (Crimea & Caucasus Tetramorium ferox complex, key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990 PDF: 197 (Turkmenistan species key); Atanasov & Dlussky, 1992: 149 (Bulgaria species key); Radchenko, 1992a PDF: 44 (former U.S.S.R. species key); Morisita, Kubota, et al. 1992: 33 (Japan species key); Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 60 (Armenia species key); Radchenko, 1994b: 109 (South Siberia species key); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 403 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 79 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 332 (Saudi Arabia species key); Seifert, 1996B: 158 (Central Europe species key); Cagniant, 1997: 89 (Morocco species key); Radchenko, Czechowski & Czechowsa, 1998: 107 (Poland species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 17 (Portugal species key); Sanetra, Güsten & Schulz, 1999 PDF: 317 (Italy, species); Shattuck, 1999: 168 (Australia synopsis); Chang & He, 2001B PDF: 1 (northwest China species key); Zhou, 2001A PDF: 100 (China, Guangxi species key); Czechowski, Radchenko & Czechowska, 2002 PDF: 145 (Poland species key); Mackay & MacKay, 2002 PDF: 214 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Seifert, 2007: 145 (North and Central Europe species key); Cs?sz, Radchenko & Schulz, 2007 PDF: 8 (Tetramorium chefketi complex key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 162 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 177 (south-western Australia species key); Cs?sz & Schulz, 2010 PDF: 12 (Tetramorium ferox complex key); Hita Garcia, Fischer & Peters, 2010 PDF: 12 (Afrotropical Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group key); Vásquez-Bolaños, et al. 2011: 454 (Neotropical Tetramorium tortuosum group key); Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor, 2012 PDF: 7 (Arabia species key).

Genus Tetramorium references

Genus: Tetramorium

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

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