Tetramorium rhetidum Bolton

Type location Ghana (Bolton1980: 318, illustrated, latero-dorsal head only), holotype worker, 8 paratype workers and 2 queens from CRIG, leaf litter and leaf mould samples, by himself (2.1x.1970, 25.xi.1970). Bolton also listed another CRIG collection (D. Leston). Since described as widespread in leaf litter (971 workers from 9 sites) by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b) .

Bolton's description (1980) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.9-2.1 mm; characterised by the side of the head in full-face view having a number of very short, curved decumbent hairs. All dorsal surfaces also have numerous short stout blunt hairs. Coloured uniform bright yellow.

From Ivory Coast, at Banco Forest (W.L. Brown) and Divo (L. Brader), plus Gabon and Zaïre.

The photomontage is of the holotype worker, collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0280867.