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Redescription of Tetramorium forte Forel, 1904 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a western Mediterranean ant species

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Naturgeschichtliche Abteilung, Friedensplatz 1, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Paracelsusstraße 14, D-51375 Leverkusen, Germany
Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
Hymenoptera Myrmicinae Tetramoriini taxonomy lectotype designation distribution identification

Abstract

The western Mediterranean ant species Tetramorium forte Forel, 1904 is redescribed and a lectotype is designated. Taxonomic controversy surrounding the application of the name and its synonymy is thereby resolved: T. ruginode Stitz, 1917 (with its junior synonym T. hispanicum Bondroit, 1918), T. maurum tingitanum Santschi, 1929 and T. maroccanum De Haro & Collingwood, 1994 are relegated to synonymy with T. forte. Lectotypes are designated for T. hispanicum, T. maurum tingitanum, T. maroccanum and T. silvestrianum Emery, 1924. The latter taxon, previously regarded as a junior synonym of T. forte, is synonymized with Myrmica

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