The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetraponera
Tetraponera erythraea (Forel)
{Tetraponera ambigua}

Tetraponera erythraea (Forel)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Yemen (Sima ambigua sous-esp erythraea n. subsp., Emery, 1895h: 23, worker; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 797; raised to species by Collingwood, 1985: 242); speculative subspecies occidentalis (Sima ambigua race erythraea var. occidentalis Stitz 1917: 336; Tetraponera ambigua var. occidentalis, Menozzi, 1934: 154, worker) from Algeria and worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) - Yemen (Aden ) & North Africa.

Emery's (1895h) description is at {original description}. Stitz's (1917) description of occidentalis is at {original description}.

{Tetraponera erythraea}The photomontage is of specimens from Egypt, taken by Mostafa Sharaf.
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