Tetramorium calinum Bolton

Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1980: 239, illustrated; with the holotype worker and 6 paratype workers Legon, by D. Leston, 30.iv.1970) .

Bolton's description (1980) is at .

Nigeria specimens (as Xiphomyrmex species H, Taylor, 1980a: 63). WORKER. TL 3.76 mm, HL 0.84, HW 0.78, SL 0.54, PW 0.62
Colour orange, gaster and dorsal surfaces darker. Sculpturation of head, alitrunk and pedicel mainly reticulate, fine on the lateral alitrunk. Erect hairs moderately abundant and long. Antennal scrobes defined. Propodeal spines large, broad, blunt and flat; metanotal lobes small. Petiole with distinct vertical anterior and posterior faces, dorsum slightly convex. Subpetiolar tooth minute.

In Nigeria it was collected from leaf litter at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre by B. Bolton; and from Mokwa, by C. Longhurst).

Room (1971) found it (as Xiphomyrmex sp. H) in leaf litter and dead wood on the ground under cocoa at the Mampong Cemetery site, this is not in Bolton's (1980) list. That list did have other findings at Legon (G. Benson) and the Axim area (C. Collingwood) and describes the preferred habitat as probably open places and dry, sandy soils.

The photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901164.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetramorium calinum B Taylor det.

Ghana S Sky Stephens 06G0092

2006

In personal collection of S Sky Stephens

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The photomontage is of a worker from Ghana, collected by S Sky Stephens, 2006.