Bolton's description (1980)
is at .
WORKER - TL 4.8 mm; clypeus with conspicuous median
notch.
Antennal scrobes absent. Eyes prominent and hemispherical in full-face
view. Propodeum with long, narrow spines and conspicuous metapleural
lobes. Petiole with fairly long peduncle and domed profile, postpetiole
also domed but dome as if falling backwards. All dorsal surfaces with
abundant long, fine, acute hairs. Colour uniform dark brown.
According to Bolton, this is of some significance as an
intermediate between the aculeatum-group and the more obviously
typical Tetramorium types of the setigerum-group. If,
as seems the case, the specimen I separated out as Macromischoides species
Tą was determined by Bolton as no more than one of the variants of Tetramorium
aculeatum [he lists a finding as "Onipe (B. Taylor)")]
then this species, based on a single specimen must be of questionable
status.
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