Tetramorium sahlbergi (Forel)

Type location Egypt (Tetramorium caespitum L. r. punicum Sm. var sahlbergi n. v., Forel,1913d: 413, worker; Finzi, 1936: 182, worker & queen; raised to species Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56) Cairo; also Heluan and Beirut (Lebanon).

Forel's (1913d) description is at . Finzi's (1936) description is at .

Egypt records - in former HNS as Tetramorium punicum var. sahlbergi.
Sharaf list - Material examined: Wadi El-Arbaein, St.Catherine (South Sinai), 3.iv.1998 (4); Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), xii.2002 (1); Damietta, 20.viii.2003 (16); Sallant (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 6.vii.2003 (16); Abuzabal (Qalyubiya), 18.vi.2002 (6); Sallant (El-Daqahliya, Egypt), 19.viii.2003 (6) (SHC); Abu-Mina, 8.iv.1954 (14); Wadi Digla (Cairo), 2.iii.1956 (1) (ASUC).
The photomontage is of workers from Egypt, taken by Mostafa Sharaf.

The photomontage of a worker from the BMNH collection, probably identified by B Bolton, is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0280933.

The type worker can be seen at http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0909108