Tapinoma
| Tapinoma | |
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| Tapinoma melanocephalum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Tapinomini |
| Genus: | Tapinoma Förster, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Tapinoma collina | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 74 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tapinoma (from Greek ταπείνωμα low position) is a genus of ants that belongs to the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus currently comprises 74[2] 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.[3]
Species
- Tapinoma aberrans (Santschi, 1911)
- Tapinoma acuminatum Forel, 1907
- Tapinoma albinase (Forel, 1910)
- Tapinoma albomaculatum (Karavaiev, 1926)
- Tapinoma amazone Wheeler, 1934
- Tapinoma andamanense Forel, 1903
- Tapinoma annandalei (Wheeler, 1928)
- Tapinoma antarcticum Forel, 1904
- Tapinoma arnoldi Forel, 1913
- Tapinoma atriceps Emery, 1888
- †Tapinoma baculum Zhang, 1989
- Tapinoma carininotum Weber, 1943
- Tapinoma chiaromontei Menozzi, 1930
- Tapinoma christophi Emery, 1925
- Tapinoma danitschi Forel, 1915
- Tapinoma demissum Bolton, 1995
- †Tapinoma electrinum Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002
- Tapinoma emeryanum Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927
- Tapinoma emeryi (Ashmead, 1905)
- Tapinoma epinotale Karavaiev, 1935
- Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille, 1798)
- Tapinoma festae Emery, 1925
- Tapinoma flavidum André, 1892
- Tapinoma fragile Smith, 1876
- Tapinoma funiculare Santschi, 1928
- Tapinoma geei Wheeler, 1927
- Tapinoma gibbosum Stitz, 1933
- †Tapinoma glaesaria Perrichot, Salas-Gismondi & Antoine, 2019 (formerly T. aberrans Dlussky, 2002)[4]
- Tapinoma glaucum (Viehmeyer, 1916)
- Tapinoma heyeri Forel, 1902
- Tapinoma himalaica Bharti, Kumar & Dubovikoff, 2013
- Tapinoma indicum Forel, 1895
- Tapinoma israele Forel, 1904
- Tapinoma karavaievi Emery, 1925
- Tapinoma kinburni Karavaiev, 1937
- Tapinoma krakatauae (Wheeler, 1924)
- Tapinoma latifrons (Karavaiev, 1933)
- Tapinoma litorale Wheeler, 1905
- Tapinoma luffae (Kurian, 1955)
- Tapinoma lugubre Santschi, 1917
- Tapinoma luridum Emery, 1908
- Tapinoma luteum (Emery, 1895)
- Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895
- Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793)
- 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 neli Perrichot, Salas-Gismondi & Antoine, 2019[4]
- Tapinoma nigerrimum (Nylander, 1856)
- Tapinoma opacum Wheeler & Mann, 1914
- Tapinoma orthocephalum Stitz, 1934
- 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 sahohime Terayama, 2013
- Tapinoma schreiberi Hamm, 2010
- Tapinoma schultzei (Forel, 1910)
- Tapinoma sessile (Say, 1836)
- Tapinoma silvestrii Wheeler, 1928
- Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911
- Tapinoma sinense Emery, 1925
- Tapinoma subboreale Seifert, 2012
- Tapinoma subtile Santschi, 1911
- †Tapinoma troche Wilson, 1985
- Tapinoma wheeleri (Mann, 1935)
- Tapinoma williamsi (Wheeler, 1935)
- Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012
- Tapinoma wroughtonii Forel, 1904
References
- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Tapinoma". AntCat. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ^ "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): 35–43. doi:10.3897/zookeys.212.3325. PMC 3428702. PMID 22933848.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ a b Vincent Perrichot; Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi; Pierre-Olivier Antoine (2019). "The ant genus Tapinoma Förster (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in Miocene amber of Peru". Palaeoentomology. 2 (6): 585–590. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.6.8.
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