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Taxonomic History

6 subspecies

Formica caespitum Linnaeus, 1758 PDF: 581 (w.) EUROPE. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Latreille, 1798 PDF: 50 (q.m.); Mayr, 1861 PDF: 62 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954d PDF: 445 (l.); Hauschteck, 1961 PDF: 221 (k.); Imai, 1966b PDF: 119 (k.).
Combination Manica: Jurine, 1807 PDF: 279; in Tetramorium: Mayr, 1855 PDF: 426.
Senior synonym of Tetramorium fuscula: Smith, 1851 PDF: 118.
, Radchenko, 2007: 31; of Tetramorium modesta Foerster: Curtis, 1854: 215; Mayr, 1855 PDF: 426; of Tetramorium fusca: Dalla Torre, 1893: 132; of Tetramorium transversinodis: Brown, 1949a: 47; of Tetramorium immigrans: Bolton, 1979 PDF: 171; of Tetramorium himalayanum, Tetramorium indocile, Tetramorium transbaicalense: Radchenko, 1992b PDF: 50; of Tetramorium hammi: Bolton, 1995b: 405; of Tetramorium jiangxiense: Wu & Wang, 1995a: 82; of Tetramorium fusciclavum: Sanetra, Güsten & Schulz, 1999 PDF: 320.
Current subspecies: nominal plus Tetramorium caespitum barabense, Tetramorium caespitum caespitomoravicum, Tetramorium caespitum flavidulum, Tetramorium caespitum japonicum, Tetramorium caespitum pallidum, Tetramorium caespitum typicum.
See also: Emery, 1909f PDF: 697; Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 107; Emery, 1925a PDF: 177; Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 135; Kutter, 1977c: 157; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 544; Smith, 1979: 1400; Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 84; Cammaerts, Pasteels, et al. 1985: 109; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 151; López, 1991a: 31; Tetramorium semilaeve André, 1881 (Hym., Formicidae). Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomologia 15:65-78. [1991-12-30]">López, 1991b: 73; López, et al. 1992: 169; Radchenko, Czechowski & Czechowska, 1998: 108.

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