Tetramorium eminii (Forel)

Type location Ethiopia (Triglyphothrix eminii, Forel, 1894b: 79, worker); junior synonyms akermani (Arnold, 1926: 265, worker) and marleyi (Forel, 1914d: 221, worker) from South Africa, cinereus (Weber, 1943c: 377, illustrated, worker) from Sudan, guillodi (Santschi, 1937d: 233, worker) from Angola, marthae (Forel, 1911e: 265, worker) from Tanzania, Zanzibar, and mus (Santschi, 1937d: 234, worker) from Angola; worker only described see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1894b) description is at . Forel's (1911e) description of marthae is at . Forel's (1914d) description of marleyi is at . Arnold's (1917: 342) translation of marleyi is at . Arnold's (1926) description of akermani is at . Santschi's (1937d) descriptions of guillodi and mus are at . Weber's (1943c) description of cinereus is at . Bolton's description (1976) is at .

Nigeria specimen (as Triglyphothrix species D, Taylor 1980a: 61) WORKER. TL 2.64 mm (2.7-3.6 mm in Bolton, 1976: 324, illustrated, full-face and lateral head; in my guide as (previously Triglyphothrix species D), other dimensions not measured as the specimen was in poor condition.
Colour very dark red-brown. Sculpturation of coarse rugoreticulum on the head, alitrunk and pedicel. Erect hairs trifid and only moderately abundant. Head without marked antennal scrobes. Propodeal spines reduced to short, acute teeth; metapleural lobes similar. Petiole and postpetiole longitudinally compressed.

From Nigeria a single specimen came from the base of a tree in a garden at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, collected by B. Bolton. From Ghana, at Legon (D. Leston). Otherwise, from locations all over sub-Saharan Africa (Bolton, 1976).

The photomontage is collected from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0178333&shot=p1&project=.