Tetramorium severini (Emery, 1895)

Francisco Hita Garcia, T. T. & Fisher, Brian L., 2011, 3039, Zootaxa 3039, pp. 1-72 : 58

Tetramorium severini species group

Diagnosis

Eleven-segmented antennae; anterior clypeal margin medially impressed; frontal carinae developed and usually ending between posterior eye margin and posterior head margin; anterior face of mesosoma only weakly developed and rounding onto the dorsum; margination between lateral and dorsal mesosoma weak; propodeal spines very long and spinose; propodeal lobes triangular and short; petiolar node in profile rounded high nodiform, anterior and posterior faces of the node roughly parallel, and all sides rounding smoothly onto the dorsal face without distinct angles, in profile much higher than long, in dorsal view about as wide as long; postpetiole roughly rounded; mandibles usually unsculptured; cephalic sculpturation distinct and predominantly longitudinally rugose; mesosoma with weak sculpturation; waist segments and gaster unsculptured, smooth, and shiny; cephalic dorsum with abundant dorsal long, fine hairs, mesosoma and waist segments with very few hairs, first gastral tergite without pilosity, only very sparse, short pubescence present; sting appendage spatulate.