Tapinoma simrothi var. phoenicaea 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 var. phoenicaea Emery 1925 [type investigation]

The species has been described from Cyprus and Greece. Investigated were 4 workers from the lectotype sample labelled “Cipro”, “ T.simrothi var. phoenicea Emery ” [Emery’s handwriting], “ANTWEB CASENT0904017”, “ SYNTYPUS Tapinoma simrothi phoenicea Emery, 1925 ”. As lectotype is fixed by present designation the major worker in the sample having CW 974 µm, SL 978 µm and dAN 295 µm. Depository MCSN Genova. The lectotype sample is allocated with p=0.9992 to its name-bearing cluster if run as wild-card in LDA considering all for species of the T. simrothi group .