Tetramorium Mayr, 1855

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2013, The ants (Hymenoptera: formicidae) of Rawdhat Khorim Nature Preserve, Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, Zootaxa 3709 (6), pp. 565-580 : 574

Genus Tetramorium Mayr, 1855

Tetramorium is one of the most diverse ant genera in the subfamily Myrmicinae , with 518 described taxa ( Bolton, 1995; Bolton et al., 2007; Bolton 2013), distributed worldwide in the tropics and temperate regions ( Brown, 2000). The genus has been comprehensively revised for the majority of the zoogeographic regions ( Bolton 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1985; Hita Garcia et al., 2010; Hita Garcia & Fisher 2011, 2012a, 2012b). For many years, the Palaearctic region was lacking revisions but recently several important contributions have been published ( Steiner et al., 2005; Schlick-Steiner et al., 2006; Csõsz et al., 2007; Csõsz & Schulz, 2010; Steiner et al., 2010).