Tetramorium sahlbergi (Forel)
  Type location Egypt (Tetramorium
caespitum L. r. punicum Sm. var sahlbergi n. v.,
Forel,1913d: 413,
worker; Finzi, 1936: 182, worker & queen; raised to species Agosti
& Collingwood, 1987a: 56) Cairo; also Heluan and Beirut (Lebanon).
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 Forel's
(1913d) description is at  . Finzi's (1936) description is at  .
Egypt records - in HNS as Tetramorium
punicum var. sahlbergi.
Sharaf list - Material examined: Wadi El-Arbaein, St.Catherine (South
Sinai), 3.iv.1998 (4); Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), xii.2002 (1); Damietta,
20.viii.2003 (16); Sallant (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 6.vii.2003 (16);
Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), 18.vi.2002 (6); Sallant (El-Daqahliya, Egypt),
19.viii.2003 (6) (SHC); Abu-Mina, 8.iv.1954 (14); Wadi Digla (Cairo),
2.iii.1956 (1) (ASUC).
The photomontage is of specimens from Egypt, taken by Mostafa Sharaf.
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The
photomontage of a worker from the BMNH collection, probably identified
by B Bolton, is collated from