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Tetrogmus
| Tetrogmus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Tetrogmus Roger, 1857 |
| Type species | |
| Tetrogmus caldarius, now Tetramorium caldarium
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Tetramorium.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- TETROGMUS [junior synonym of Tetramorium]
- Tetrogmus Roger, 1857: 10. Type-species: Tetrogmus caldarius, by monotypy.
- Tetrogmus subgenus of Tetramorium: Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 141.
- Tetrogmus junior synonym of Tetramorium: Roger, 1862c: 297; Bolton, 1976: 359.
References
- Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 34: 281-379 (page 359, Tetrogmus as junior synonym of Tetramorium)
- 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 195, Tetrogmus as junior synonym of Tetramorium)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 226, Tetrogmus as junior synonym of Tetramorium)
- Roger, J. 1857. Einiges über Ameisen. Berl. Entomol. Z. 1: 10-20 (page 10, Tetrogmus as genus)
- Roger, J. 1862c. Synonymische Bemerkungen. 1. Ueber Formiciden. Berl. Entomol. Z. 6: 283-297 (page 297, Tetrogmus as junior synonym of Tetramorium)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910b. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. (page 141, Tetrogmus as subgenus of Tetramorium)