Tapinoma simrothi karavaievi 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 : 55

Tapinoma simrothi karavaievi Emery 1925 [type investigation]

This species has been described from Turkmenistan. Investigated were 4 syntype workers on the same pin labelled “Imam Baba Karavaiev”, “ SYNTYPUS T.simrothi karavaievi Emery, 1925 ” and 6 syntype workers on two other pins with similar labelling which are deposited in MCSN Genova. As lectotype is fixed by present designation a major worker with CW 970 µm and SL 929 µm placed on the top card of the first pin. The lectotype sample is allocated with p = 0.9998 to its name-bearing cluster in a LDA considering all for species of the T. simrothi group .