Tapinoma
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| Tapinoma | |
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| Tapinoma melanocephalum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Tapinomini |
| Genus: | Tapinoma Förster, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Tapinoma collina | |
| Species | |
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T. erraticum | |
| Diversity | |
| > 70 species | |
Tapinoma (from Greek tapeinos low, humble + Neo-Latin -oma) is a genus of ants that belongs to the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus currently comprises 71[1] described species distributed worldwide in tropical and temperate regions. Members of are generalized foragers, nesting in a wide variety of habitats, ranging from grasslands, open fields, woodlands, to inside buildings. The majority of species nest in the ground under objects such as stones or tree logs, other species build nests under bark of logs and stumps, in plant cavities, insect galls or refuse piles.[2]
Species
- Tapinoma acuminatum Forel, 1907
- Tapinoma amazone Wheeler, 1934
- Tapinoma ambiguum Emery, 1925
- Tapinoma andamanense Forel, 1903
- Tapinoma annandalei (Wheeler, 1928)
- Tapinoma antarcticum Forel, 1904
- Tapinoma arnoldi Forel, 1913
- Tapinoma atriceps Emery, 1888
- Tapinoma carininotum Weber, 1943
- Tapinoma chiaromontei Menozzi, 1930
- Tapinoma christophi Emery, 1925
- Tapinoma danitschi Forel, 1915
- Tapinoma demissum Bolton, 1995
- Tapinoma emeryanum Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927
- Tapinoma epinotale Karavaiev, 1935
- Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798)
- Tapinoma flavidum Andre, 1892
- Tapinoma fragile Smith, 1876
- Tapinoma funiculare Santschi, 1928
- Tapinoma geei Wheeler, 1927
- Tapinoma gibbosum Stitz, 1933
- Tapinoma glaucum (Viehmeyer, 1916)
- Tapinoma heyeri Forel, 1902
- Tapinoma indicum Forel, 1895
- Tapinoma israele Forel, 1904
- Tapinoma karavaievi Emery, 1925
- Tapinoma kinburni Karavaiev, 1937
- Tapinoma litorale Wheeler, 1905
- Tapinoma luffae (Kurian, 1955)
- Tapinoma lugubre Santschi, 1917
- Tapinoma luridum Emery, 1908
- Tapinoma luteum (Emery, 1895)
- Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793)
- Tapinoma menozzii Donisthorpe, 1936
- Tapinoma minimum Mayr, 1895
- Tapinoma minor Bernard, 1945
- Tapinoma minutissimum Emery, 1891
- Tapinoma minutum Mayr, 1862
- Tapinoma modestum Santschi, 1932
- Tapinoma muelleri Karavaiev, 1926
- Tapinoma opacum Wheeler & Mann, 1914
- Tapinoma orthocephalum Stitz, 1934
- Tapinoma pallipes Smith, 1876
- Tapinoma panamense Wheeler, 1934
- Tapinoma philippinense Donisthorpe, 1942
- Tapinoma pomone Donisthorpe, 1947
- Tapinoma pygmaeum Dufour, 1857
- Tapinoma ramulorum Emery, 1896
- Tapinoma rasenum Smith & Lavigne, 1973
- Tapinoma rectinotum Wheeler, 1927
- Tapinoma rottnestense Wheeler, 1934
- Tapinoma schultzei (Forel, 1910)
- Tapinoma sessile (Say, 1836) — odorous house ant
- Tapinoma silvestrii Wheeler, 1928
- Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911
- Tapinoma sinense Emery, 1925
- Tapinoma subtile Santschi, 1911
- Tapinoma troche Wilson, 1985
- Tapinoma vexatum Santschi, 1919
- Tapinoma wheeleri (Mann, 1935)
- Tapinoma williamsi (Wheeler, 1935)
- Tapinoma wroughtonii Forel, 1904
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References
- ↑ "Genus: Tapinoma". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
- ↑ Sharaf, M.; Aldawood, A.; Elhawagry, M. (2012). "A new ant species of the genus Tapinoma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia with a key to the Arabian species". ZooKeys 212 (212): 35–43. doi:10.3897/zookeys.212.3325. PMC 3428702. PMID 22933848.
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