Tetraponera triangularis (Stitz)

Type location Equatorial Guinea (Sima triangularis, Stitz, 1910: 131, worker; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 800) collected at Alen, by Tessmann; subspecies illota from Nigeria (Olokemeji, collector F. Silvestri, Santschi, 1914d: 334, worker & queen); worker and queen described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Stitz's (1910) description is at and Santschi's (1914d) description of illota is at .

TL 7.5 mm; fine white sparse pilosity, short whitish pubescence on thorax and gaster; sculpturation of very fine dense puncturation on head and thorax; black, with anterior of head, posterior border of gaster segments and appendages yellow brown. Head shape similar to mocquerysi but with larger eyes and three ocelli.