Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Formica (Tapinoma) albipes Smith, 1861b PDF: 38 (w.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi). Indomalaya. Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Sulawesi (“Celebes”), Tondano (“Tond”) (
A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0102952.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Roger, 1863b PDF: 13;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 455;
Smith, 1871a PDF: 310;
Mayr, 1872 PDF: 147;
Mayr, 1876 PDF: 83;
Forel, 1891c PDF: 98 (redescription);
André, 1892c PDF: 51;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 166;
Emery, 1893h PDF: 249;
Emery, 1893i PDF: 267;
Forel, 1894b PDF: 74;
Forel, 1895a PDF: 49;
Forel, 1895f PDF: 466;
Emery, 1895i PDF: 43;
Emery, 1897: 573;
Emery, 1900: 696;
Emery, 1901h PDF: 121;
Emery, 1901i PDF: 567;
Forel, 1901c: 17;
Dahl, 1901 PDF: 12;
Rothney, 1903: 98;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 301;
Forel, 1904c PDF: 376;
Forel, 1905f PDF: 23;
Forel, 1908b PDF: 3, 21;
Wheeler, 1908c PDF: 166;
Wheeler, 1909d PDF: 342;
Forel, 1909b PDF: 55;
Forel, 1909k PDF: 395;
Forel, 1910b PDF: 56;
Emery, 1911f PDF: 532;
Emery, 1911g PDF: 249;
Forel, 1911b PDF: 207;
Forel, 1911c PDF: 226;
Stitz, 1911a PDF: 370;
Forel, 1912l PDF: 164;
Wheeler, 1912a PDF: 46;
Emery, 1913a PDF: 43;
Forel, 1913a PDF: 140;
Forel, 1913g PDF: 197;
Forel, 1913l PDF: 94;
Wheeler, 1913f PDF: 237;
Emery, 1914f PDF: 420, 430;
Arnold, 1915: 150;
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 343;
Viehmeyer, 1916a PDF: 143;
Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 101;
Mann, 1919 PDF: 364;
Santschi, 1920h PDF: 172;
Wheeler, 1922: 925, 1035;
Stitz, 1923: 163;
Wheeler, 1923c PDF: 4;
Santschi, 1924c PDF: 112;
Karavaiev, 1926d PDF: 441;
Stärcke, 1926a PDF: 117 (in key);
Wheeler, 1927b PDF: 46;
Wheeler, 1927d PDF: 9;
Wheeler, 1927h PDF: 99;
Wheeler, 1927i PDF: 149;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 395;
Cheesman & Crawley, 1928 PDF: 523;
Wheeler, 1928c PDF: 31;
Wheeler, 1929h PDF: 62;
Karavaiev, 1930a PDF: 213;
Menozzi, 1930h PDF: 327;
Wheeler, 1930b PDF: 104;
Wheeler, 1930k PDF: 73;
Santschi, 1932d: 17;
Wheeler, 1932e PDF: 161;
Wheeler, 1932g PDF: 18;
Wheeler, 1933f PDF: 143;
Wheeler, 1934i: 16;
Wheeler, 1935g: 37;
Wheeler, 1936g PDF: 15;
Wheeler, 1937a PDF: 23;
Teranishi, 1940: 37;
Yasumatsu, 1940c PDF: 68;
Weber, 1943d PDF: 380;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 194;
Brown, 1958h PDF: 41;
Wilson, 1962c PDF: 18;
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b PDF: 82, 103;
Taylor, 1967b PDF: 1094;
Collingwood, 1976a PDF: 300;
Taylor, 1976a: 87;
Onoyama, 1980a PDF: 199;
Taylor & Brown, 1985: 107;
Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 243;
Taylor, 1987a PDF: 77;
Morisita et al., 1991: 8;
Wu & Wang, 1992c PDF: 1311;
Dlussky, 1994a: 55;
Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 157;
Bolton, 1995b: 402;
Wu & Wang, 1995a: 119;
Tang et al., 1995: 92;
Dorow, 1996a PDF: 83;
Kim & Kim, 1999 PDF: 19;
Deyrup et al., 2000: 300;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 158;
Wetterer, 2002 PDF: 128;
Blard et al., 2003 PDF: 132;
Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 47;
Imai et al., 2003 PDF: 84;
Lin & Wu, 2003: 60;
Wetterer & Vargo, 2003 PDF: 416;
Collingwood & van Harten, 2005 PDF: 77;
Radchenko, 2005b PDF: 156;
Ghosh et al., 2005 PDF: 11;
Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005 PDF: 42;
Wetterer, 2006 PDF: 415;
Zhou, 2006 PDF: 585;
Bolton, 2007b PDF: 68 (redescription);
Clouse, 2007b PDF: 209;
Don, 2007: 169;
Mohanraj et al., 2010 PDF: 7;
Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 34;
Sharaf et al., 2011 PDF: 15 (in key);
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 26;
Sarnat et al., 2013 PDF: 69;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 169;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 20;
Jaitrong et al., 2016 PDF: 22;
Yamane et al., 2018 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.1.2 PDF: 37;
Sharaf et al., 2018 10.7717/peerj.4277 PDF: 39;
Dias et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF: 19;
Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.998.54902 PDF: 18;
Wang et al., 2022 10.20362/am.015006 PDF: 28.
Senior synonym of
Technomyrmex albitarse:
Emery, 1893h PDF: 249;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 166;
Forel, 1895f PDF: 466;
Emery, 1913a PDF: 43;
Wheeler, 1922: 926;
Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 157;
Bolton, 1995b: 402;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 158;
Bolton, 2007b PDF: 68;
Sharaf et al., 2018 10.7717/peerj.4277 PDF: 40.
Senior synonym of
Technomyrmex nigrum:
Mayr, 1872 PDF: 147;
Mayr, 1876 PDF: 83;
Forel, 1891c PDF: 98;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 166;
Forel, 1895f PDF: 466;
Emery, 1913a PDF: 43;
Wheeler, 1922: 925;
Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 157;
Bolton, 1995b: 402;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 158;
Bolton, 2007b PDF: 68;
Sharaf et al., 2018 10.7717/peerj.4277 PDF: 40.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Cameroon,
Gabon,
Ivory Coast,
Madagascar,
Mauritius,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Reunion,
Seychelles,
South Africa,
Sudan,
Tanzania,
Uganda,
Zimbabwe Americas: Cayman Islands,
French Guiana,
United States Asia: Bangladesh,
Borneo,
Cambodia,
China,
India,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Krakatau Islands,
Laos,
Malaysia,
North Korea,
Philippines,
South Korea,
Sri Lanka,
Taiwan,
Thailand,
United Arab Emirates,
Vietnam,
Yemen Europe: Denmark,
Switzerland Oceania: Australia,
Cook Islands,
Guam,
Hawaii,
Marshall Islands,
Micronesia,
New Caledonia,
Niue,
Palau,
Papua New Guinea,
Pitcairn,
Samoa,
Solomon Islands,
Tokelau,
Wallis and Futuna Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Australasia,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy,
Neotropical,
Oceania,
Palearctic Native to (according to species list records)
: Indomalaya bioregion
Distribution Notes:
Oahu, Maui, Hawaii
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Technomyrmex albipes |
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Fernández, F. & Guerrero, R. J., 2008, Technomyrmex (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in the New World: synopsis and description of a new species., Revista Colombiana de Entomologia 34, pp. 110-115: 111, (download) |
111 |
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Technomyrmex albipes |
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Forel, A., 1895, Nouvelles fourmis de diverses provenances, surtout d'Australie., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 39, pp. 41-49: -1, (download) |
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3954
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Emery, C., 1893, Voyage de M. E. Simon à l'île de Ceylan (janvier - février 1892). 3 e Mémoire. Formicides., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62, pp. 239-258: 11, (download) |
11 |
3767
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Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 8, pp. 368-388: 9, (download) |
9 |
3994
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Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 98-99, (download) |
98-99 |
6734
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Emery, C., 1895, Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3 e mémoire. Formicides., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64, pp. 15-56: 29, (download) |
29 |
3788
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Forel, A., 1909, Fourmis du Musée de Bruxelles. Fourmis de Benguela récoltées par M. Creighton Wellman, et fourmis du Congo récoltées par MM. Luja, Kohl et Laurent., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 53, pp. 51-73: 55, (download) |
55 |
4018
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Forel, A., 1894, Abessinische und andere afrikanische Ameisen, gesammelt von Herrn Ingenieur Alfred Ilg, von Herrn Dr. Liengme, von Herrn Pfarrer Missionar P. Berthoud, Herrn Dr. Arth. Müller, etc., Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 9, pp. 64-100: 74, (download) |
74 |
3950
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Forel, A., 1912, The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M. A. Volume 4, No. 11. Fourmis des Seychelles et des Aldabras, reà § ues de M. , Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15, pp. 159-167: 164, (download) |
164 |
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 38 times found in rainforest, 17 times found in coastal scrub, 19 times found in urban/garden, 26 times found in forest, 14 times found in urban garden, 14 times found in littoral forest, 12 times found in littoral rainforest, 21 times found in dry forest, 5 times found in degraded dry forest, 6 times found in mixed forest, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 71 times on low vegetation, 30 times sifted litter (leaf mold, rotten wood), 20 times ex dead twig above ground, 14 times ground forager(s), 6 times 1 square meter of sifted leaf litter, 12 times ex rotten log, 7 times on tree trunk, 6 times leaf litter (1 sq meter), 8 times foragers, 7 times ex soil, 2 times ex dead branch above ground, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 51 times pitfall trap, 21 times Davis sifting>hand collected|aspirator, 4 times 2 Maxi Winks, 9 times 9 MaxiWinks, mixed samples, 11 times winkler, 6 times hand collected, 5 times Malaise trap, 12 times hand collected|aspirator, 4 times Malaise trap, 1 trap, 10 times hand collected|aspirator>bait trap|peanut butter, maple syrup, 7 times beating low vegetation, ...
Elevations: collected from 1 - 1824 meters, 339 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1899-12-31 00:00:00.0 and 2022-08-06 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Holotype of Crematogaster forticulus: casent0903031; Not Provided: casent0715857, casent0715858, casent0715859, casent0734559, casent0734560, casent0735013, casent0735014, casent0741778, casent0741835, casent0741836, casent0741862, casent0741863, casent0742309, casent0742322, casent0742340, casent0742351, casent0753171, casent0753172, casent0753173, casent0753174; syntype of Tapinoma nigrum: casent0915552; syntype of Technomyrmex albipes: casent0102952; syntype of Technomyrmex detorquens: casent0903030; syntype of Technomyrmex albipes bruneipes: casent0909789; syntype of Technomyrmex albipes wedda: casent0909792; type of Technomyrmex albipes wedda: focol0181, focol0182
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