 Forel's (1916)
description is at  . Bolton's modern
description (1980) is at  .
WORKER - Forel had TL 2.6-2.9 mm, Bolton gave TL 3.2-3.5
mm;
both it and Tetramorium
psymanum have a dense pelt of elongate fine soft hairs, and a
high postpetiole with an abrupt vertical posterior face, the latter
species also has no propodeal teeth. This species is yellow and psymanum
is mid-brown (Bolton, 1980: 349, illustrated).
Wheeler (1922) described how Bequaert found a specimen
in
Zaïre, from the domatia of a Cuviera, other swellings were
occupied by Axinidris denticulatum (as Engramma denticulatum;
see also Bequaert, 1922, p 492). Bolton himself collected it in Ghana,
at CRIG, but gave no details (Bolton, 1980), he also discovered a
distinctive specimen which matched the label details but clearly was
not meressei - that he named as Tetramorium
unicum.
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The photomontage of
a worker from