Tetramorium candidum Bolton

Type location Zaïre (Bolton, 1980: 345, illustrated, worker & male) Bukavu, 27.viii.1957,E S Ross & R E Leech .

Bolton's description (1980) is at .

WORKER - TL 3.1-3.3 mm.

The photomontage of the holotype from Zaïre is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=castype13387&project=

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetramorium candidum B Taylor det.

Tanzania G McGavin tree 3-50

10.i.1996 Mkomazi Igire Hill

pkd collection from Heywoodia lucens

1

The photomontage is of a worker from Tanzania, Igire Hill, Mkomazi Game Reserve; collector G McGavin.

Apart from the more prominent small propodeal teeth, this seems a close match to the Bolton (1980) description of candidum; in life the colour is more true to the "light brown" given by Bolton, belying the colour in the Antweb images. The type location is at the extreme east of the Congo Basin, nera the border with Rwanda.