Tetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander)

Type location USA (Myrmica bicarinata, Nylander, 1846b: 1061, worker & queen; as Tetramorium guineense, Forel, 1891b: 151, male) California, autumn 1840 - possible type (damaged)  see - https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0102530
junior synonym cariniceps (as Myrmica cariniceps, Guérin-Méneville, 1852: 79, worker) from Dominica - http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0235210
with its junior synonyms
kollari (as Myrmica kollari, Mayr, 1853c: 283, all forms) from Austria - http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0235200
modesta (as Myrmica modesta, F Smith, 1860b: 108, worker) from Indonesia - see below
reticulata (as Myrmica reticulata, F Smith, 1862b: 33, worker) from Panama - http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0901076
Identity and synonymization by Bolton (1977: 94) .

Nylander's (1846b) description is at . Arnold's (1917: 307) gave a translation, as T. guineensis, this is at . Bolton's modern description (1980) is at .

WORKER - TL 3.4-4.5 mm (Bolton, 1977: 95, illustrated; Bolton, 1980: 267, not illustrated).

Note: Arnold (1917) included it as an exotic that might arrive in Africa but had not arrived when he wrote. Bolton (1980) has - "South Africa, Natal, Durban (C. P. Merwe) [introduced from Burma]".

The photomontage of a syntype modesta worker, as in Bolton (1977), is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0235209.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetramorium bicarinatum B Taylor det.	Egypt M Sharaf	23.vii.2003 Giza 30°01' N 31°31' E	Elkorymat	5
Tetramorium bicarinatum B Taylor det.	Egypt M Sharaf	17.viii.2007 Maseh Matrouh 31°21' N 27°14' E	Kaseh Tourism Village	1
Tetramorium bicarinatum B Taylor det.	Saudi Arabia M Sharaf	25.ii.2005 Farasan Is. 16°42' N 42°11' E	Red Sea	1

The photomontage of is a worker from Egypt; Elkorymat, Giza; collector Mostafa Sharaf.