Tetramorium youngi Bolton
Type location Angola (Bolton, 1980: 284, not illustrated,
worker), described from a single holotype worker. He placed it in the
setigerum-group and thought it had no close relatives west of
Zaïre  .
Bolton's description (1980) is at
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WORKER - TL 3.4 mm; long scapes and long frontal carinae; very long
propodeal spines, narrow, acute and down-turned; petiole node high and
narrow in profile. Colour head and body glossy blackish-brown,
appendages pale yellow.
Since found at Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana, 7 workers, in
leaf litter by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b). |
