Tetramorium bendai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Tetramorium bendai Hita Garcia, Fischer & Peters, 2010: 64, figs. 11A, 12B, 13A, 73, 74, 75

Holotype: BMNH: ZFMK_HYM_2009_6204, worker.
- Type locality: BURUNDI, Bujumbura, 27.V.1977, leg. A. Dejean.
Paratypes: 13 workers with same data as holotype (BMNH: 11 workers ZFMK_HYM_2009_6203, ZFMK_HYM_2009_6205, ZFMK_HYM_2009_6206, ZFMK_HYM_2009_6207; CASC: 1 worker ZFMK_HYM_2009_6173; ZFMK: 1 worker ZFMK_HYM_2009_6208).
Etymology: The new species is dedicated to Christoph Benda from Bonn, Germany, for his continuous support and encouragement of the first author's entomological work.

Hita Garcia, F., Fischer, G. & Peters, M.K. 2010. Taxonomy of the Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region. Zootaxa 2704: 1–90. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2704.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page.

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