Tetraponera erythraea (Emery)

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) - see below
junior synonym (here) occidentalis (Sima ambigua r. erythraea Em. v. occidentalis n. v., Stitz 1917: 336; Tetraponera ambigua var. occidentalis, Menozzi, 1934: 154, worker) from Algeria and Yemen (Aden) & North Africa - see below).
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995).

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

The photomontage of the (probable) type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904034. Note the abundance of erect hairs on the head and alitrunk.

A very similar workers from Saudi Arabia can be seen at http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0249824
and http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0906480

The photomontage of a type series worker of occidentalis is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=focol1170.

The photomontage is of a worker from Tanzania, Mkomazi Game Reserve; collector G McGavin (Tree 3-68).

Previously I had this under Tetraponera ambigua but the abundance of erect hairs is as shown above and are absent on the type images for T. ambigua.

The photomontage is of specimens from Egypt, taken by Mostafa Sharaf.