Tetramorium buthrum Bolton

Type location Central African Republic (Bolton, 1980: 309, not illustrated, worker) collected at Haut Mbomu, Ubangi-Shari, by N.A. Weber, iii.1948; holotype plus two paratypes, also 2 workers from Niangara, Zaïre, by N.A. Weber .

Bolton's description (1980) is at .

WORKER - TL 2.2 mm; in simillimum complex, but without strong reticulo-punctate ground sculpture on the head; separated from Tetramotrium anxium by longer scapes and no more than 5 rugae between the eyes; dorsum of alitrunk and pedicel smooth and glossy; all surfaces with scattered short, stout, blunt hairs; colour dark brown, glossy, appendages lighter, yellowish brown. (Bolton, 1980, not illustrated).

The photomontage is of a paratype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0280864.