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Tapinomini

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Tapinomini was named by Emery (1913). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Dolichoderini by Bolton (2003).

It was assigned to Dolichoderinae by Emery (1913), Wheeler (1915), Bolton (2012) and Perrichot and Engel (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Tapinomini Emery p. 17
1915Tapinomini Wheeler
2012Tapinomini Bolton
2022Tapinomini Perrichot and Engel p. 780

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
—Antennoclypeata
subfamilyDolichoderinae
tribeTapinomini
tribeTapinomini

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tr. Tapinomini Emery 1913
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G. †Ctenobethylus Brues 1939
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Invalid names: Ctenobethylus succinalis Brues 1939 [synonym]
G. Tapinoma Forster 1850
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†Tapinoma baculum Zhang 1989
†Tapinoma electrinum Dlussky 2002
†Tapinoma glaesaria Perrichot et al. 2019
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Invalid names: Tapinoma aberrans Dlussky 2002 [replaced]
†Tapinoma minutissimum Emery 1891
†Tapinoma neli Perrichot et al. 2019
†Tapinoma troche Wilson 1985
G. Technomyrmex Mayr 1870
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†Technomyrmex caritatis Brandão and Baroni Urbani 1999
†Technomyrmex deletus Emery 1891
†Technomyrmex hispaniolae Wilson 1985
†Technomyrmex kemaensis Perfilieva 2022
†Technomyrmex svojtkai Perrichot and Engel 2022
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Holocene or 38.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (50 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Ctenobethylus goepperti (120813) Hypoclinea goepperti (109625 120811)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Iridomyrmex goepperti (123930)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Ctenobethylus goepperti (129227 129228)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Ctenobethylus goepperti (124318) Ctenobethylus sp. (201682) Hypoclinea goepperti (123458 123927 138654 138657 138658 138659 138660 138661 138663) Hypoclinea goepperti, Iridomyrmex goepperti (123757) Iridomyrmex goepperti (124073) Iridomyrmex goepperti, Ctenobethylus succinalis (124205)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine Ctenobethylus goepperti (122997 122998 232214) Ctenobethylus goepperti, Tapinoma aberrans, Tapinoma electrinum (113621)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Lithuania Ctenobethylus goepperti (113470)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Germany Iridomyrmex goepperti (122407)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Tapinoma sp. (138696)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Russian Federation Technomyrmex kemaensis (125971)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico Tapinoma sp. (21977)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Ethiopia Formicidae indet. (151982) Technomyrmex svojtkai (222682)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Mexico (Chiapas) Tapinoma sp. (153340)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97China (Shandong) Tapinoma baculum (128550) Technomyrmex septentrionalis (128552)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Iridomyrmex hispaniolae (138698 138699 138700 138701 138704 138705 138706 138708) Iridomyrmex hispaniolae, Tapinoma trochis (21978) Technomyrmex caritatis (138937) Technomyrmex hispaniolae (122982)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82China (Fujian) Technomyrmex sp., Tapinoma sp. (220273)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Peru Tapinoma neli (140493)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Italy Tapinoma sp., Tapinoma minutissimum, Technomyrmex deletus (123432)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Colombia (Santander) Tapinoma sp. (213295)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Colombia (Boyacá) Tapinoma sp. (215881)