Tetraponera penzigi (Mayr)

Type location Tanzania (Sima Penzigi (Emery in litt) n. sp., Mayr, 1907b: 10, all forms; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 800) - see below
subspecies
continua (Sima Penzigi Em. subsp. continua n. subsp., Forel, 1907c: 138, worker) from Ethiopia, Gotta - see below
praestigiatrix (Tetraponera penzigi Mayr v. praestigiatrix n. v., Santschi, 1937a: 50, queen) from Tanzania, Mbulu, collector, B D Butt, in spines and galls of Acacia malacophila - see below
all forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Mayr's (1907b) description is at . Forel's (1907c) description of continua is at . Arnold (1916: 180) gave a straight translation; this is at . Santschi's (1937a) description of praestigiatrix is at .

Curiously, Mayr (1907b) pointed out that a specimen from Ethiopia (Abyssinia) had been sent to him by Emery, with a letter in which he assigned the name penzigi, denoting the collector as a botanist named Penzig.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent09158512.

The photomontage of the type worker of continua is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913722.

Note: Mayr (1907b) gave the worker size as TL 3.1-4.7 mm;

The photomontage of the type queen of praegistiatrix is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915537.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetraponera penzigi B Taylor det.

Botswana King 107

4.xi.2010 Pom Pom Camp 19.35.04 S 22.50.34 E

960 m Brush and open forest near water Nesting in the stem of an acacia bush

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The photomontage is of workers collected in Botswana, Mayombe; collector D M King.

This appears to match the type description in both size and form.

TL 4.5 mm, HL 0.97 HW 0.70, SL 0.40, EL 0.23, PW 0.43; CI 68 SI 41 OI 39

A near identical worker from Kenya can be seen on http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0217595 but has no identification label.

The photograph is of the nest of the collected workers, from Botswana, Mayombe; taken by D M King.