Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Tapinoma erraticum var. simrothi Krausse, 1911a PDF: 18 (w.) ITALY (Sardinia). Palearctic. Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Italy: Sardinia (
A.H. Krausse-Heldrungen). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MSNG).
AntCat AntWiki Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Emery, 1925b PDF: 48 (redescription);
Karavaiev, 1926e PDF: 187;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927d PDF: 36;
Finzi, 1930b PDF: 16;
Santschi, 1931a: 10;
Menozzi, 1932c PDF: 95;
Karavaiev, 1932 PDF: 248;
Santschi, 1932e PDF: 71;
Santschi, 1932h PDF: 4;
Finzi, 1933 PDF: 164;
Menozzi, 1933b PDF: 77;
Menozzi, 1934: 163;
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 102;
Finzi, 1936 PDF: 183;
Santschi, 1936c PDF: 204;
Finzi, 1939c PDF: 157;
Santschi, 1939c PDF: 4;
Menozzi, 1940a PDF: 270;
Finzi, 1940 PDF: 162;
Bernard, 1945b PDF: 134;
Bernard, 1948 PDF: 154;
Ceballos, 1956: 310;
Collingwood, 1961a PDF: 65;
Collingwood, 1961c PDF: 289;
Cagniant, 1964 PDF: 90;
Pisarski, 1967a PDF: 407;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 259 (redescription);
Baroni Urbani, 1968e PDF: 476;
Cagniant, 1968a PDF: 145;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 77;
Cagniant, 1970c PDF: 28;
Pisarski, 1970a PDF: 319;
Bernard, 1971: 8;
Kutter, 1977c PDF: 182;
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 87 (in key);
Schembri & Collingwood, 1981 PDF: 421;
Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 243;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 57;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 279 (in key);
Kugler, 1988 PDF: 258;
Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990c PDF: 426;
Collingwood, 1993b PDF: 195;
Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 153;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 74;
Bolton, 1995b: 401;
Mei, 1995 PDF: 766;
Poldi et al., 1995: 6;
Collingwood et al., 1997 PDF: 509;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 27;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 20 (in key);
Mohamed et al., 2001 PDF: 42;
Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 194;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 103 (in key);
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 478;
Karaman, 2011b PDF: 66;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 24;
Collingwood et al., 2011 PDF: 416;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 538;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 26;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 5;
Sharaf et al., 2012a 10.3897/zookeys.212.3325 PDF: 40 (in key);
Berville et al., 2013 PDF: 79;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 169;
Lebas et al., 2016: 118;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 49;
Borowiec & Salata, 2020 10.5281/zenodo.3733156 PDF: 16;
Sharaf et al., 2020 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.4.005 PDF: 537;
Abdel-Dayem et al., 2021 10.3897/BDJ.9.e66058 PDF: 9;
Borowiec & Salata, 2022 PDF: 50 (redescription).
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Algeria,
Canary Islands,
Morocco Asia: Afghanistan,
China,
Iran,
Israel,
Kuwait,
Oman,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
Turkey,
United Arab Emirates,
Yemen Europe: Balearic Islands,
Gibraltar,
Greece,
Italy,
Malta,
Montenegro,
Portugal,
Spain Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
Canary Islands
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 3 times found in isolated date farm, 1 times found in Rocky brush along wash, 1 times found in date farm, 1 times found in open area, dunes, near road, 2 times found in Pinus halepensis+pistacea lentiscus, 2 times found in Campo de labranza, 1 times found in mountains, 1 times found in open mediterranean meadow, 1 times found in prado rocoso, 1 times found in roadside, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 3 times ground forager(s), 1 times soil, 1 times on low vegetation, 2 times nest mound, 1 times under stone, 1 times on ground, 1 times low vegetation, 1 times between saline plants.
Collected most commonly using these methods: 3 times water traps, 9 times Hand, 1 times light trap, 2 times by hand, 2 times search, 1 times Hand collected.
Elevations: collected from 3 - 2580 meters, 624 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1974-05-13 00:00:00.0 and 2017-10-10 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Nontype: casent0745226, casent0745227
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