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Species: Tapinoma simrothi   Krausse, 1911 

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2022)

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

[Tapinoma erraticum simrothi Krausse, 1910 PDF: 526. Nomen nudum.]
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: 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).
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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)

Treatment Citation: Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61

Tapinoma simrothi KrausseHNS, 1911

Tapinoma simrothi KrausseHNS, 1911: Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital.41.T8.

Tapinoma erraticum BaroniHNS Urbani 1964: Atti. Accad. Gioenia Scienze Naturali Gatania (6):25-66.

World distribution: Sardinia & Egypt.

Distribution in Egypt: Lower Nile & Delta.

Material examined: Ebn Salam: 28.IV.1998 (2), 13.IV.1999 (3) (Ain Coll.).

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 Desert area, 1 times found in salines, 1 times found in Forest steppe, 1 times found in seashore, ...

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 search, 2 times by hand, 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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