Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Tetramorium
Tetramorium inerme Mayr

Tetramorium inerme Mayr

return to listIran list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Kazakhstan (Tetramorium caespitum L. var. inerme, Mayr, 1877a: 17, worker, name only; raised to species Dalla Torre, 1893: 133; note Antweb has "redescribed in Latin: Mayr, 1880: 19" that appears to be perpetuated from Bolton, 1995: 408, and is wrong; the name appears in Mayr, 1880, only on page 35, where there is a short description of the variation from the type T. caespitum but in German.) - see below.
Junior synonyms (Radchenko, 1992b: 53)
picta (Tetramorium caespitum L. var. picta, Karavaiev, 1912b, 584, worker & queen,  from Transcapia - no images on Antweb (September 2015)
plana (Tetramorium caespitum L. var. plana, Karavaiev, 1927b: 109,  illustrated, all forms) from Turkestan- no images on Antweb (September 2015)
reticuliventre (Tetramorium caespitum var. reticuliventre Ruzsky, 1902b 481, worker) from Turkestan - see below.


Mayr's (1877a) description is at - {original description}. Emery (1909b) is at - {original description}. The Csösz, Radchenko & Schulz (2007: 18) revision is at - {original description}.


Tetramorium inermeThe photomontage of a worker from the type collection is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0919636.

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