The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetramorium
Tetramorium snellingi Hita Garcia, Fischer & Peters

Tetramorium snellingi Hita Garcia, Fischer & Peters

return to group key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Kenya (Tetramorium snelling sp. n., Hita Garcia, Fischer & Peters, 2010a: 141, illustrated worker & queen); worker and queen only known .

Hita Garcia, F., Fischer, G. & Peters, M.K. 2010a. Tetramorium snellingi sp.n. – a new leaf-litter ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from a Western Kenyan rainforest. Myrmecological News, 13, 141-146.

Many collections in Kakamega Forest, Kenya.

{Tetramorium snellingi}The photomontage is of the holotype worker from Kenya, Kakamega Forest, 00°19'36" N  34°52'14.6" E; 1650 m asl; forest leaf litter pitfall trap; 16.viii.2008; collected by F. Hita Garcia.
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