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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Myrmicinae » Crematogastrini » Pavement Ants (Tetramorium) » Tetramorium atratulum

Species Tetramorium atratulum

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)
Family Formicidae (Ants)
Subfamily Myrmicinae
Tribe Crematogastrini
Genus Tetramorium (Pavement Ants)
Species atratulum (Tetramorium atratulum)
Explanation of Names
Formerly Anergates atratulus (Schenck 1852)
Range
holarctic, roughly following its host
Life Cycle
They have no workers, since they are parasites.
Remarks
Obligate parasite of Tetramorium caespitum

The species A. atratulus was moved under the genus Tetramorium after the genus Anergates was synonymized with Tetramorium by Ward et. al. 2015.
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 30 August, 2007 - 9:37am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Oliver.Yung
Last updated 13 February, 2025 - 9:14am

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