The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetraponera
Tetraponera mayri (Forel)

Tetraponera mayri (Forel)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Sima Mayri nov. sp., Forel, 1901h: 53, queen; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 798) collected by Dr H. Brauns - no images on Antweb (January 2019)
Queen only described (see Bolton, 1995) .


Forel's (1901h) description is at {original description}.

Santschi (1919h) describing the queen of Tetraponera tessmanni compared that with mayri, noting that the latter had a more distinctly dentate clypeus.This has TL 6.3 mm,  the tessmanni queen is TL 5 mm.

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