Tetramorium galoasanum Santschi, 1910

Mbanyana, Nokuthula, Garcia, Francisco Hita, Robertson, Hamish Gibson & Roux, Johannes Jacobus Le, 2018, A taxonomic revision of seed harvester ants of the Tetramorium solidum group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in southern Africa, European Journal of Taxonomy 454, pp. 1-59 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.454
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3818708
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scientific name	Tetramorium galoasanum Santschi, 1910
status

Treatment

Tetramorium galoasanum Santschi, 1910 View in CoL

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Tetramorium setuliferum var. galaosana Santschi, 1910: 381 .

Diagnosis

T. galoasanum , T. clunum and T. setuliferum are the only species in the Tetramorium solidum group with appressed silvery hairs covering the entire body ( Fig. 2E View Fig ). The appressed silvery hairs are denser in T. galoasanum than in the other two species.

Material examined

Syntypes

REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Brazzaville, MʼBounion , Mindouga , Comba-Ibre , Aug. 1908, Weiss leg. ( NHMB: CASENT0915015 ; RMCA: RMCAENT000017787 ; MCZC (not examined); BMNH: CASENT0901178 ).

Distribution

Only known from Congo.

References

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Abbreviations

NHMB	Switzerland, Basel, Naturhistorisches Museum
RMCA	Belgium, Tervuren, Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale
MCZC	USA, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology
BMNH	United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]
NHMB	Natural History Museum Bucharest
RMCA	Royal Museum for Central Africa