Tetramorium

Taxobox
name = "Tetramorium"

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image_caption = "Tetramorium caespitum"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
familia = Formicidae
subfamilia = Myrmicinae
tribus = Tetramoriini
genus = "Tetramorium"
genus_authority = Mayr, 1855
diversity_link = Tetramorium
diversity = > 250 (> 400?) species
range_

range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Tetramorium" is a genus of insect in family Formicidae.

"Tetramorium" was first described in the same publication as "Monomorium".

Description

Workers are around two to four mm long. Males have antennae with eleven segments.

Distribution

Most species are distributed throughout the Afrotropical and Oriental regions. Ten species have been recorded from Japan. "T. caespitum" is native to Europe, but has been introduced to North America in the 1700's.

elected species

* "Tetramorium antipodum" Wheeler, 1927
* "Tetramorium bicarinatum" (Nylander, 1846) — Guinea ant (originally Southeast Asia, introduced worldwide)
* "Tetramorium caespitum" (Linnaeus, 1758) — pavement ant
* "Tetramorium hispidum" (Wheeler, 1915)
* "Tetramorium indosinense" Wheeler, 1927
* "Tetramorium lucayanum" Wheeler, 1905
* "Tetramorium nippononse" Wheeler, 1928
* "Tetramorium microgyna" Santschi, 1918
* "Tetramorium parasiticum" Bolton, 1980
* "Tetramorium punicum" (F. Smith, 1861

References

* ITIS: [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=154245 Genus "Tetramorium"]
* Japanese Ant Image Database: [http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/E/Taxo/F409--.html Genus "Tetramorium"]

Further reading

* (1855): Formicina austriaca. Beschreibung der bisher im österreichischen Kaiserstaate aufgefundenen Ameisen nebst Hinzufügung jener in Deutschland, in der Schweiz und in Italien vorkommenden Ameisen. "Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien" 5: 273-478.

External links

* AntWeb: [http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=tetramorium&rank=genus&project=calants Pictures of some "Tetramorium" species]