Tetramorium calinum Bolton
Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1980: 239, illustrated; with
the holotype worker and 6 paratype workers Legon, by D. Leston,
30.iv.1970)  .
Bolton's description (1980) is at
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 Nigeria
specimens (as Xiphomyrmex species H, Taylor, 1980a: 63).
WORKER. TL 3.76 mm, HL 0.84, HW 0.78, SL 0.54, PW 0.62
Colour orange, gaster and dorsal surfaces darker. Sculpturation
of head, alitrunk and pedicel mainly reticulate, fine on the
lateral alitrunk. Erect hairs moderately abundant and long.
Antennal scrobes defined. Propodeal spines large, broad, blunt and
flat; metanotal lobes small. Petiole with distinct vertical
anterior and posterior faces, dorsum slightly convex. Subpetiolar
tooth minute.
In Nigeria it was collected from leaf litter at the
Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre by B. Bolton; and
from Mokwa, by C. Longhurst).
Room (1971) found it (as Xiphomyrmex sp. H) in leaf
litter and dead wood on the ground under cocoa at the Mampong
Cemetery site, this is not in Bolton's (1980) list. That list did
have other findings at Legon (G. Benson) and the Axim area (C. Collingwood)
and describes the preferred habitat as probably open places and
dry, sandy soils. |
The
photomontage is of a specimen from Ghana, collected by S
Sky Stephens, 2006. 