Tapinoma simrothi pheonicium, 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 : 54

Tapinoma simrothi pheonicium (sic!) sensu Hefetz & Lloyd 1983)

Hefetz & Lloyd (1983) distinguished four dolichoderine ant species to occur in Israel and apparently correctly identified (but misspelled) T. phoenicaeum which they reported to be the most abundant dolichoderine species in Israel. This is in agreement with the current survey in which 85% of the 40 Tapinoma samples from Israel were classified as T. phoenicaeum and in addition it was the only species of the T. simrothi group found there.