Tetramorium jugatum Bolton

Type location Ivory Coast (Bolton, 1980: 289, illustrated, head only, worker) .

Holotype and 20 paratype workers from Téké Forest, Anyama; collector T. Diomande, 1.ii.1974. There were several other Ivorian forest findings - Tai (27 workers) and Téké Forests, and Palmeraie de Lame (T. Diomande), Banco Forest (W.L. Brown), Nzi Noua (W.L. & D.E. Brown), and Lamto (J. Lévieux).

Bolton's description (1980) is at .

Nigeria specimens (as Tetramorium species I, Taylor, 1980a: 53). WORKER. TL 2.43 mm, HL 0.65, HW 0.59, SL 0.50, PW 0.40 , has TL 2.2-2.6 mm
Sculpturation on all except the gaster reticulate, fine on the lateral alitrunk. Erect hairs relatively abundant, fine and moderately long. Eyes small. Propodeal spines moderately long, triangular and pointing slightly upwards; metapleural lobes broadly triangular. Petiole node short, with a more or less domed profile although flatter dorsally. Colour yellow-brown.
Found in a wet, rotten pawpaw (Carica papaya) stump at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, by Bolton (1980), and a second finding, at IITA (B.R. Critchley).

Collected in Ghana at Mampong (P.M. Room, as Tetramorium species 1, probably I, in cocoa leaf litter, Room, 1971) and CRIG (B. Bolton) (Bolton, 1980). Since found in leaf litter in the semi-deciduous forest zone - 4 specimens, at the Mankrang Forest reserve, primary forest; Kade, secondary forest; Nankasi, cocoa (Belshaw & Bolton, 1994b).

A small rotten-wood inhabiting species.