Tetramorium rectinodis

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Tetramorium rectinodis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tetramorium lucayanum)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: Tetramorium rectinodis
Menozzi, 1942

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

Nomenclature

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

  • rectinodis. Tetramorium rectinodis Menozzi, 1942: 176, fig. 2 (w.) EQUATORIAL GUINEA (Bioko I.). [Also given as new in Eidmann, 1944: 454.] Junior synonym of lucayanum: Brown, 1964b: 131; Bolton, 1979: 172.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1979. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Malagasy region and in the New World. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 38: 129-181 (page 172, Junior synonym of lucayanum)
  • Brown, W. L., Jr. 1964d. Solution to the problem of Tetramorium lucayanum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. News 75: 130-132 (page 131, Junior synonym of lucayanum)
  • Eidmann, H. 1944. Die Ameisenfauna von Fernando Poo. 27. Beitrag zu den Ergebnissen der Westafrika-Expedition. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Ökol. Geogr. Tiere 76: 413-490 (page 454, also given as new)
  • Menozzi, C. 1942a. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zool. Anz. 140: 164-182 (page 176, fig. 2 worker described)