Terataner luteus (Emery)

Bolton, B., 1981, A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region., Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 43, pp. 245-307 : 293

publication ID

6438

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6282692

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scientific name

Terataner luteus (Emery)
status

 

Terataner luteus (Emery) View in CoL   HNS

(Figs 38,44,49)

Atopomyrmex luteus Emery   HNS , 1899: 477. Syntype workers, Cameroun (Conradt) (MCSN, Genoa; MCZ, Cambridge) [examined].

Terataner luteus   HNS (Emery) Emery, 1912: 103. Worker. TL 5.0 - 5.8, HL 1.22 - 1.40, HW 1.16 - 1.32, CI 94 - 98, SL 0.74 - 0.80, SI 59 - 66, PW 0.86 - 1.04, AL 1.52 - 1.78 (15 measured).

Answering to the description of elegans   HNS and very closely related to it. T. luteus   HNS differs from elegans   HNS as follows.

luteus   HNS

Colour uniform dull yellow.

Pronotum broader than long, the pronotal width about equalling or distinctly exceeding the combined lengths of the pro- and mesonotum in dorsal view.

At least in larger specimens the sides of the pronotum in dorsal view distinctly convex (Fig. 49).

Ground-sculpture on dorsum of head very feeble, sometimes almost effaced.

elegans   HNS

Colour blackish brown to black on head and gaster, alitrunk reddish or lighter brown. Pronotum about as long as broad, the pronotal width less than the combined lengths of the pro- and mesonotum in dorsal view.

In all specimens the sides of the pronotum in dorsal view only very feebly convex (Fig. 48).

Ground-sculpture on dorsum of head superficial but dense and distinct.

Material examined

Ghana: (Cade {D. Leston); Bunso (D. Leston).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Terataner

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