The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetramorium
Tetramorium elidisum Bolton

Tetramorium elidisum Bolton

return to group key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1980: 346, illustrated, alitrunk and pedicel, holotype worker) .

{Tetramorium elidisum}Bolton's description (1980) is at {original description}.

Described by Bolton (1980) from the sole holotype worker, collected at Aburi in (P.M. Room, 3.vii.1969).

WORKER - TL 3.4 mm; characterised by a dense covering of short erect blunt stubbly hairs, and the first gastral tergite having fine very dense reticulo-punctate sculpturation.

{Tetramorium elidisum}The photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901231

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