Tetramorium new species Congo

Type location Congo .

Nigeria specimens (as Xiphomyrmex species F, Taylor, 1980a: 63). WORKER. TL 2.80 mm, HL 0.70, HW 0.70, CI 100, SL 0.47, SI 67, PW 0.50.
Colour dark red-brown. Sculpturation primarily rugose on the head and alitrunk; the pedicel is coarsely rugoreticulate. Hairs moderately long and fairly abundant. Antennal scrobes distinct. Propodeal teeth well developed, with a slight apical downturn; no marked metapleural lobes. Petiole with distinct near vertical anterior and posterior faces, the dorsum only slightly convex; a short, blunt subpetiolar tooth. Postpetiole convex in profile.
Found in open ground, with a nest in dead wood on the ground at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre. Not listed by Bolton (1980, although deposited with him by me in 1976).

The photomontage is of a specimen from Congo, Brazzaville, Congo t 1.3; 19.viii.2007 24 h pitfall trap; collected by Yves Braet & Eric Zassi
TL ca 2.8 mm, HL 0.62, HW 0.62, CI 100, SL 0.42, SI 42, PW 0.42, AL 0.65.

The photomontage is of a specimen from Benin, Bonou, Forêt de Gnanhouizoumè, 06°50-55 N 02°20-30'E; Pitfall trap; S Tchibozo; 27.viii.2006. Other images can be seen in the folder at -