Tetramorium akengense (Wheeler, W.M., 1922)

Garcia, Francisco Hita, Fischer, Georg & Peters, Marcell K., 2010, Taxonomy of the Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region 2704, Zootaxa 2704, pp. 1-90 : 43

Tetramorium akengense (Wheeler, W.M., 1922) comb. et stat. n.

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Xiphomyrmex occidentalis subsp. akengensis Wheeler, W.M. 1922:194 . Syntype workers, D.R. CONGO, Akengi , X.1913, leg. H.O Lang (MCZ, USNM) [examined]. [Synonymy with T. occidentale by Bolton, 1980:229].

[ Wheeler (1922) states in the original description that the type series was collected by Lang & Chapin, and

Bolton (1980) provides the same collecting data. However, the labels of the syntypes in MCZ and of three specimens from the same series in BMNH show H.O. Lang as single collector and provide a collection date not given by Wheeler (1922) nor Bolton (1980).]