Tapinoma tauridis Emery 1925

Seifert, Bernhard, Kaufmann, Bernard & Fraysse, Lorenzo, 2024, A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic species of the ant genus Tapinoma Mayr 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 5435 (1), pp. 1-74 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5435.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:121D0891-6348-49DB-B96D-7EE0CC6E62D3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10955043
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/945A3D69-FF94-FFBB-8394-AA29FDD4F8E7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Tapinoma tauridis Emery 1925
status	syn. nov.

Treatment

Tapinoma tauridis Emery 1925 , syn. nov. [type investigation]

The taxon has been described from the Crimea based on collections made by Mejunov and Karavajev. Investigated were two type specimens, a male and a worker, from MCSN Genova .

The male, labelled “ Crimée Mejunoff”, “ SYNTYPUS Tapinoma tauridis Emery, 1925 ” was fixed by present designation as lectotype (“ Lectotype Tapinoma tauridis Emery 1925 , des. B Seifert 2015”). A synonymization with T. erraticum and israelis is excluded by geographic indication. The syntype worker is labelled “ Crimée Karavaiev”, “ T. tauridis Emery ”[Emery’s handwriting], “ANTWEB CASENT 0904021”, “ SYNTYPUS Tapinoma tauridis Emery, 1925 ”. It is allocated to the T. glabrella cluster with p= 0.9960 in a wild-card run of a LDA considering 12 morphometric characters ( Tab. 1).