Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Tetramorium
Tetramorium davidi Forel

Tetramorium davidi Forel

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Israel (Tetramorium caespitum L. subsp. Davidi n. subsp., Forel, 1911g: 285, worker; Forel, 1913d: 413, queen; raised to species Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56; list only) Jerusalem, Father Ernest Schmitz.


Forel's (1911g) description is at {original description}. Forel's (1913d) description of the queen and note is at {original description}. Emery's (1924a) description of cyrenaicum is at {original description}.

Forel (193d) expanded the distribution to Syria. Agosti & Collingwood (1987a) added Greece and Turkey.


{Tetramorium davidi}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904826.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetramorium davidi
B Taylor det.
Iran
S Moradloo
19
7.vii.2013
36.76°N 
47.89°E
Ghaliche Bolagh
2157 m 32°C
Desert

13
{album}
Tetramorium davidi
B Taylor det.
Iran
Torabi
40
31.x.2014
29.93551°N
52.88435°E
1616 m
Persepolis, Shiraz
hand collected
landscape, wall
13:22 h
1
{album}

Tetramorium davidiThe photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collector S Moradloo (19).
Exactly matches the type worker (above).


Tetramorium davidiThe photomontage is of a worker from Iran, collector Roshanak Torabi (40).

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