The Ants
of Egypt SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Tetramorium Tetramorium taueret (Emery) Bolton |
caespitum-group |
Tetramorium taueret (Emery) BoltonType location Egypt (Bolton 1995: 406, replacement name for Tetramorium caespitum ssp caespitum var debilis n., Emery, 1909d: 701, all forms; Emery, 1922f: 276 - name only; raised to species Bernard, 1967: 235) Cairo, ii.1880, Doria, Beccari. |
Emery's (1909d) description is at . Bernard's (1967) description is at . Egypt records - type location Cairo (no collector named); in HNS as Tetramorium caespitum var. debilis Emery. Karavaiev (1911: *) reported finding one worker which he listed as T. caespitum from Cairo. |
The photomontage of a type worker (as debilis) is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0904816. |
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