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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Tetramorium - Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander)

Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander)

return to group key Type location USA (Myrmica bicarinata, Nylander, 1846b: 1061, worker & queen; as Tetramorium guineense, Forel, 1891b: 151, male) California, autumn 1840 - possible type (damaged)  see - https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0102530
junior synonym cariniceps (as Myrmica cariniceps, Guérin-Méneville, 1852: 79, worker) from Dominica - http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0235210
with its junior synonyms
kollari (as Myrmica kollari, Mayr, 1853c: 283, all forms) from Austria - http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0235200
modesta (as Myrmica modesta, F Smith, 1860b: 108, worker) from Indonesia - see below
reticulata (as Myrmica reticulata, F Smith, 1862b: 33, worker) from Panama - http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0901076
Identity and synonymization by Bolton (1977: 94) .


{Tetramorium bicarinatum}Nylander's (1846b) description is at {original description}. Arnold's (1917: 307) gave a translation, as T. guineensis, this is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1980) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 3.4-4.5 mm (Bolton, 1977: 95, illustrated; Bolton, 1980: 267, not illustrated).

Note: Arnold (1917) included it as an exotic that might arrive in Africa but had not arrived when he wrote. Bolton (1980) has - "South Africa, Natal, Durban (C. P. Merwe) [introduced from Burma]".


{Tetramorium bicarinatum}The photomontage of a syntype modesta worker, as in Bolton (1977), is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0235209.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetramorium bicarinatum
B Taylor det.
Egypt
M Sharaf

23.vii.2003
Giza
30°01' N
31°31' E
Elkorymat

5
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Tetramorium bicarinatum
B Taylor det.
Egypt
M Sharaf
17.viii.2007
Maseh Matrouh
31°21' N
27°14' E
Kaseh Tourism Village
1

Tetramorium bicarinatum
B Taylor det.
Saudi Arabia
M Sharaf

25.ii.2005
Farasan Is.
16°42' N
42°11' E
Red Sea
1


{Tetramorium bicarinatum}The photomontage of is a worker from Egypt; Elkorymat, Giza; collector Mostafa Sharaf.

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