Tetraponera erythraea (Emery)

Type location Yemen (Sima ambigua sous-esp. erythraea n. subsp., Emery, 1895h: 23, worker; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 797; raised to species by Collingwood, 1985: 242) - see below
speculative subspecies occidentalis (Sima ambigua r. erythraea Em. v. occidentalis n. v., Stitz 1917: 336; Tetraponera ambigua var. occidentalis, Menozzi, 1934: 154, worker) from Algeria and Yemen (Aden) & North Africa - no images on Antweb (April 2015).
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995).

Emery's (1895h) description is at . Stitz's (1917) description of occidentalis is at .

The photomontage of the (probable) type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904034. Note the abundance of erect hairs on the head and alitrunk.

A very similar workers from Saudi Arabia can be seen at http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0249824
and http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0906480

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetraponera erythraea B Taylor det.	Tanzania G McGavin tree 3-68-01	16.i.1996 Mkomazi 3°57' S 37°48.13' E	pkd collection from Terminalia browni	1
Tetraponera erythraea B Taylor det.	Tanzania G McGavin tree 3-68-01	8.iv.1995 Mkomazi 3°57' S 37°48.13' E	pkd collection from Terminalia browni	1

The photomontage is of a worker from Tanzania, Mkomazi Game Reserve; collector G McGavin (Tree 3-68).

Previously I had this under T. ambigua but the abundance of erect hairs is not shown on the type images for that species.

The photomontage is of specimens from Egypt, taken by Mostafa Sharaf.