Trichomyrmex lameerei stauderi

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Trichomyrmex lameerei stauderi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Trichomyrmex
Species group: destructor
Species: T. lameerei
Subspecies: T. lameerei stauderi
Trinomial name
Trichomyrmex lameerei stauderi
(Wolf, 1914)

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Palaearctic Region: Algeria (type locality).

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Countries Occupied

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Estimated Abundance

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • stauderi. Monomorium lameerei var. stauderi Wolf, 1915: 42, fig. 2 (w.) ALGERIA.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a short series”).
    • Type-locality: Algeria: Biskra (H. Stauder).
    • Type-depository: unknown.
    • [Misspelled as standeri by Menozzi, 1929e: 128.]
    • Combination in Trichomyrmex: Ward, et al. 2015: 76 (by implication).
    • Subspecies of lameerei: Emery, 1922e: 177; Menozzi, 1929e: 128; Ettershank, 1966: 92; Bolton, 1995b: 267.
    • Distribution: Algeria, Egypt.

Description

References

  • Ward, P.S., Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L., Schultz, T.R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40: 61–81 (doi:10.1111/syen.12090).
  • Wolf, K. 1915. Studien über palaearktische Formiciden. I. Ber. Naturwiss.-Med. Ver. Innsb. 35: 37-52 (page 42, fig. 2 worker described)