Tapinoma (from Greek ) is a genus of ants that belongs to the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus currently comprises 87 described species distributed worldwide in tropical and temperate regions. Species in the genus 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.
Species As of 2026, Tapinoma contains 87 valid species, including 81 extant and six fossil species. Extant
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 arnoldi Forel, 1913 Tapinoma atriceps Emery, 1888 Tapinoma breviscapum Forel, 1908 Tapinoma carininotum Weber, 1943 Tapinoma chiaromontei Menozzi, 1930 Tapinoma christophi Emery, 1925 Tapinoma dabashanicum Seifert et al., 2024 Tapinoma danitschi Forel, 1915 Tapinoma darioi Seifert et al., 2017 Tapinoma demissum Bolton, 1995 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 glabrellum (Nylander, 1849) Tapinoma glaucum (Viehmeyer, 1916) Tapinoma himalaicum Bharti et al., 2013 Tapinoma hispanicum Seifert et al., 2024 Tapinoma ibericum Santschi, 1925 Tapinoma incognitum Cover & Rabeling, 2024 Tapinoma inflatiscapus Cover & Rabeling, 2024 Tapinoma insulare Seifert et al., 2024 Tapinoma israele Forel, 1904 Tapinoma jandai Seifert, 2025 Tapinoma karavaievi Emery, 1925 Tapinoma kinburni Karavaiev, 1937 Tapinoma krakatauae (Wheeler, 1924) Tapinoma latifrons (Karavaiev, 1933) Tapinoma litorale Wheeler, 1905 Tapinoma lugubre Santschi, 1917 Tapinoma luridum Emery, 1908 Tapinoma luteum (Emery, 1895) Tapinoma madeirense Forel, 1895 Tapinoma magnum Mayr, 1861 Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793) Tapinoma minimum Mayr, 1895 Tapinoma minutum Mayr, 1862 Tapinoma modestum Santschi, 1932 Tapinoma muelleri Karavaiev, 1926 Tapinoma nigerrimum (Nylander, 1856) Tapinoma onaele Shakur et al., 2024 Tapinoma opacum Wheeler & Mann, 1914 Tapinoma orthocephalum Stitz, 1934 Tapinoma panamense Wheeler, 1934 Tapinoma paxi General & Schoppe, 2025 Tapinoma philippinense Donisthorpe, 1942 Tapinoma phoeniceum Emery, 1925 Tapinoma pomone Donisthorpe, 1947 Tapinoma pulchellum Cover & Rabeling, 2024 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 shattucki Cover & Rabeling, 2024 Tapinoma sichuense Seifert et al., 2024 Tapinoma silvestrii Wheeler, 1928 Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911 Tapinoma sinense Emery, 1925 Tapinoma subboreale Seifert, 2012 Tapinoma subtile Santschi, 1911 Tapinoma wheeleri (Mann, 1935) Tapinoma williamsi (Wheeler, 1935) Tapinoma wilsoni Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012 Tapinoma wroughtonii Forel, 1904 Tapinoma yacoubi Sharaf, 2022
Extinct
†Tapinoma baculum Zhang, 1989 †Tapinoma electrinum Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002 †Tapinoma glaesaria Perrichot et al., 2019 †Tapinoma minutissimum Emery, 1891 †Tapinoma neli Perrichot et al., 2019 †Tapinoma troche Wilson, 1985
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