The Ants of Africa
Genus Tapinoma
Tapinoma luridum Emery
{Tapinoma luridum sokolovi}

Tapinoma luridum Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Emery, 1908b: 188, worker) collected at Sankuru, by Luja; subspecies sokolovi (Karavaiev, 1931d: 50, illustrated, worker) from Kenya; worker only described (see Bolton, 1995).

I have separated longiceps (Wheeler, 1922: 209, worker) from Zaïre, and connexum (Tapinoma luridum stirps connexum, Santschi, 1914b: 118, illustrated, worker) from Kenya, as distinct species, Tapinoma longiceps and Tapinoma connexum .

Emery's (1908b) description is at {original description}. Karavaiev's (1931d) description of sokolovi is at {original description}.

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