Tetramorium capillosum Bolton

Type location Gabon (Bolton, 1980: 236, illustrated alitrunk profile), a single collection, holotype worker and 7 paratype workers, at Makokou, by I. Liberburg, x.1972 .

Bolton's description (1980) is at .

WORKER - TL 4.1 mm; colour black, head and gaster sometimes lighter; closely related to tabarum, with it the only African members of the tortuosum group; separated from Tetramorium tabarum by having striate mandibles, smaller eyes (0.23 HW), long low petiole node, sculptured pedicel, and blackish (Bolton, 1980).

The photomontage is of a paratype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901156.