The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetraponera
Tetraponera emeryi (Forel)

Tetraponera emeryi (Forel)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location South Africa (Sima Emeryi, n. sp., (= S. capensis Emery, nec Smith), Forel, 1911d: 367, worker; renaming of worker thought to be "capensis", by Emery, 1895h: 24; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 797) Pretoria.
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .


Emery's (1895h) note on S. capensis F. Sm. (nec Mayr, loc. cit, from Pretoria, is at {original description}. Forel's (1911d) renaming is at {original description}. Arnold (1916: 187) gave a straight translation of Forel's note; this is at {original description}. F Smith's (1858b) Pseudomyrma capensis is at {original description}. Smith's capensis has two ocelli, TL ca 6.6 mm and large eyes.


{Tetraponera emeryi}The photomontage of a worker from South Africa, Clan William, Cape Province, 11.xi.1949, collector B Malkin; is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0217590.

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