Taxonomy of the Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2704, 2010, Pages 1-90

  Garcia, Francisco Hita ^a   Fischer, Georg ^a   Peters, Marcell K ^a  

^a Zoological Research Museum A Koenig   (Germany)

Author keywords

Afrotropical; Key to species; Revision; T. edouardi complex; T. muralti complex; T. weitzeckeri complex; Tetramorinii

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; TETRAMORIUM; TETRAMORIUM EDOUARDI; TETRAMORIUM MURALTI; TETRAMORIUM TERSUM; TETRAMORIUM WEITZECKERI;

EID: 78650109395     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2704.1.1     Document Type: Article

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