Redescription of Tetramorium forte Forel, 1904 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a western Mediterranean ant species.
Author
Güsten, R.
Author
Schulz, A.
Author
Sanetra, M.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1310
1
35
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journal article
21095
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Tetramorium chefketi Forel
, 1911
Tetramorium caespitum var. chefketi Forel
, 1911
Tetramorium chefketi Forel
: Agosti & Collingwood 1987a, 1987b
According to Agosti and Collingwood (1987a), the species (misspelled “chefteki”), which was described from the European part of Turkey, occurs also in Greece and Anatolia. We compared specimens from these areas with the worker syntypes (MHNG) and support this view. Schulz (1996) presented characters differentiating
T. chefketi
from the closely similar
T. moravicum
and
T. forte
, and Sanetra and Buschinger (2000) as well as Schlick-Steiner et al. (2005) studied its phylogenetic position in relation to
T. forte
,
T. moravicum
and
T. semilaeve
.
Csoesz
et al. (unpubl.) ascribe the
paralectotypes
of
T. forte
from
Alušta
(
Crimea
,
Ukraine
) to
T. caespitum sarkissiani Forel
, 1911 and regard that taxon as synonymous to
T. chefketi
, which has equal priority.