The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetraponera
Tetraponera maculifrons (Santschi)
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Tetraponera maculifrons (Santschi)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Djibouti (Sima foveolata Mayr st. maculifrons n.sp., Santschi, 1912b: 162, workerl; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 797) collected at Obock; variety syriaca (Sima bifoveolata var. syriaca,Wheeler & Mann, 1916, 167, worker) from Egypt, collected in Sinai, by W M Mann; worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1912b) description is at {original description}. Wheeler & Mann's (1916) description of syriaca is at {original description}.

Mayr (1895) also noted its collection at Zanzibar, Tanzania. Menozzi (1926a) reported the queen from Somalia, at El Bar El Ellan.


The Wheeler & Mann specimens in the MCZ photograph, assuming the scale is correct, has a TL of over 6 mm; whereas Mayr (1895) gave the type bifoveolata TL as 3.8-4.2 mm; Mayr also noted abundant pubescence on the type bifoveolata and none is obvious on the MCZ syriaca specimen. The photomontage is collated from http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Format=images.htm&Species_ID=20528&-Find.
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