Tetramorium parvispinum (Emery, 1893)

Liu, Cong, Guenard, Benoit, Garcia, Francisco Hita, Yamane, Seiki, Blanchard, Benjamin, Yang, Da-Rong & Economo, Evan, 2015, New records of ant species from Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 477, pp. 17-78 : 61-62

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.477.8775

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DFE4A6FC-7728-4576-A1F4-BD1D38173811

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/95D6978A-2ECB-805E-70BA-0094A7A8B380

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scientific name

Tetramorium parvispinum (Emery, 1893)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Formicidae

Tetramorium parvispinum (Emery, 1893) View in CoL Figure 38

Material examined.

CHINA, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna: XTBG (21.919°N, 101.274°E), Secondary forest, 05.vi.2013, 155 workers, 550 m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; XTBG (21.924°N, 101.268°E), Rubber plantation, 05.vi.2013, 6 workers, 571 m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; XTBG (21.917°N, 101.270°E), Secondary forest, 05.vi.2013, 7 workers, 580 m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; XTBG (21.911°N, 101.281°E), Limestone rain forest, 06.vi.2013, 155 workers, 650 m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; XTBG (21.916°N, 101.274°E), Secondary forest, 08.vi.2013, 58 workers, 615 m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; Menglun town (21.930°N, 101.269°E), Rubber plantation, 09.vi.2013, 2 workers, 640 m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu; XTBG (21.890°N, 101.267°E), Rubber plantation, 14.vi.2013, 9 workers, 620 m, Winkler sifting, B. Guénard, B. Blanchard and C. Liu.

Distribution.

Widely distributed in the Indo-Malayan subregion (Figure 38C).

Taxonomic note.

Tetramorium parvispinum is a member of the Tetramorium walshi species group. It can be identified with the key presented by Bolton (1976; as Triglyphothrix parvispina )

Natural history.

Tetramorium parvispinum has been collected from leaf litter in secondary forest, limestone forest and rubber plantations, and little is known about its bionomics.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Tetramorium