Tetramorium

Mohamed, S., Zalat, S. & Fadl, H., 2001, Taxonomy of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected by pitfall traps from Sinai and Delta region, Egypt., Egyptian Journal of Natural History 3, pp. 40-61 : 54-55

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4314/ejnh.v3i1.30001

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6279294

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Tetramorium
status

 

Genus Tetramorium View in CoL   HNS Mayr, 1855

Tetramorium   HNS Mayr, 1855: Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien.5: 423.

Type-species: Formica caespitum L.   HNS ,1758: Syst. Nat., ed.10: 581.

Distribution: Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, Australian, Polynesian, Nearctic & Neotropical regions.

Key to species

1 Body length 2.5 mm, propodeal spines relatively longer (Fig.42) ....................... ........................... T. brevicorne Brondroit   HNS

- Body length 3.5 mm, propodeal spines short .......................................................2

2- Dorsum of head with a distinct median depression, propodeal spines short and acute (Fig.43)............ T. depressicepes Menozzi   HNS

- Dorsum of head without a median depression, propodeal armature tuberculate and blunt (Fig.44)............... T. salwae   HNS n.sp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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