Taxacom: Taxacom Digest, Vol 218, Issue 5

[Mary Barkworth]

Thank you!  I shall unsynonymize them AND add the reference to Chomici et al. 2015 to explain the decision.  And thank you to all of you who responded.

Once I have added all the insect names to the list I am developing, I shall make it available for comment.  This was the first time I became aware of a synonymy problem. There are probably others that I glossed over because my primary goal was to ensure that OpenZooMuseum.org had most of the names that would be needed by entomologists or would be entomologists in Somaliland would need for adding records to existing knowledge of its insect diversity.

Mary

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Hi Mary,
Yes. *Tetraponera continua* was described as *Sima penzigi **continua *by
Forel, 1907, combined as *Sima (Tetraponera*) *continua* by Emery, 1921,
then as *Tetraponera continua* Wheeler, 1922. It was subsumed back as a
subspecies of *T. penzi*gi and treated that way until it was re-raised to
species by Chomici et al., 2015.
More details and the relevant literature are available at
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fantcat.org%2Fcatalog%2F450890&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C0b90a2a065a44c55cc1608dc8792873a%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638534310612075036%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=L04u%2B277EpGRe4FNPPSDduvwKVu2nlso8vcP5YRvVcM%3D&reserved=0.
Best,
Ziv


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> Are Tetraponera continua and T. penzigi continua synonyms? Both are listed
> with (Forel, 1907) as the author citation - Catalogue of life accepts the
> subspecies version but does not list synonyms.
> I am trying to ensure that all names of insects known to GBIF from the
> core of the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Somaliland, Somali Region of
> Ethiopia, and Somalia) are in OpenZooMuseum - hence my interest.
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> Hi Mary,
> Not an expert, but contacted Dmitry Dubovikoff, who is not in the list. So
> he replied:
> Now these taxa are valid. Two different species: Tetraponera penzigi (Mayr,
> 1907) and T.continua (Forel, 1907). The last one was described as a
> subspecies of the first, but now they are separate species.
> Recent updates and references can be found at antcat.org.
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> Sincerely,
> Mikhail Daneliya
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> > Are Tetraponera continua and T. penzigi continua synonyms? Both are
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> > with (Forel, 1907) as the author citation - Catalogue of life accepts the
> > subspecies version but does not list synonyms.
> > I am trying to ensure that all names of insects known to GBIF from the
> > core of the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Somaliland, Somali Region of
> > Ethiopia, and Somalia) are in OpenZooMuseum - hence my interest.
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