Tapinoma erraticum platyops 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 : 34

Tapinoma erraticum platyops Emery 1925 [type investigation]

The type series was collected in Vaux near Morges / Switzerland. Investigated were two worker syntypes labelled “ T. erratIcum var. platyops Emery ” [Emery’s handwrItIng], “Morges Vaux Forel € e c. y” [Forel’s handwrItIng], “ANTWEB CASENT 0904023”, “ SYNTYPUS Tapinoma erraticum platyops Emery, 1925 ”; 1 syntype male labelled “20. VI. Forel § “; depository all MCSN Genova. The syntype sample is allocated to the T. erraticum cluster with p= 0.9992 in a wild-card run of a LDA considering 12 morphometric characters ( Tab. 1) .