Tetramorium semilaeve transbaicalense

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Tetramorium semilaeve transbaicalense
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tetramorium caespitum)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: Tetramorium semilaeve transbaicalense
Ruzsky, 1936

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

Nomenclature

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

  • transbaicalense. Tetramorium semilaeve subsp. transbaicalense Ruzsky, 1936: 93 (w.) KAZAKHSTAN. Junior synonym of caespitum: Radchenko, 1992b: 50.

References

  • Radchenko, A. G. 1992b. Ants of the genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR fauna. Report 2. Zool. Zh. 71(8 8: 50-58 (page 50, Junior synonym of caespitum)
  • Ruzsky, M. 1936. Ants of the Transbaikal region. Tr. Biol. Nauchn.-Issled. Inst. Tomsk. Gos. Univ. 2: 89-97 (page 93, worker described)