Tetramorium latens

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Tetramorium latens
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tetramorium jauresi)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: Tetramorium latens
Arnold, 1948

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Tetramorium jauresi.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • latens. Tetramorium latens Arnold, 1948: 224, fig. 11 (w.) ZIMBABWE. Subspecies of jauresi: Arnold, 1952a: 463. Junior synonym of jauresi: Bolton, 1980: 348.

References

  • Arnold, G. 1948. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 8. Occas. Pap. Natl. Mus. South. Rhod. 2: 213-250 (page 224, fig. 11 worker described)
  • Arnold, G. 1952a. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10. Occas. Pap. Natl. Mus. South. Rhod. 2: 460-493 (page 463, Race of jauresi)
  • Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 40: 193-384 (page 348, Junior synonym of jauresi)