Tetramorium grebennikovi new species
Taylor
  Type location Tanzania.
WORKER
DESCRIPTION: Head rectangular with width much less than length;
antennae 12-segmented, note that the second segment
of the funiculus is very small and not easy to see; mandibles smooth;
clypeus without a raised tranverse carina; the head, dorsal
alitrunk and pedicel nodes are all strongly reticulo-rugose; the head
has no elongate simple hairs on the upper scrobe margin or on the
anterior edge of the scape; otherwise the compressed petiole node might
place it in the inezulae-group of Bolton (1976: 312); all erect
hairs short but clearly at least bifid; the first
gastral tergite is shiny but with distinctive hair pits; dark brown,
appendages golden-brown (former Triglyphothrix).
TL ca 2.0 mm; HW 0.42, HL 0.50, CI 84, SL 0.30, SI 71, PW 0.32, AL 0.45
Named in recognition of the collector, Vassily Grebennikov.
Specimen deposited in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Seemingiy close to Tetramorium trimeni but distinctly smaller, with shorter propodeal spines and better defined longitiudinal carinae on the front of the head.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Tetramorium grebennikovi
B Taylor det.
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Tanzania
V Grebennikov
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09-11.x.2002
Usambara Mts
5°05' S
38°38' E
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Amani NR, Zigi Lodge, 2200 m
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 The photomontage is of a the holotype worker from the Uluguru Mts,
Tanzania, W slope between Tchenzema village & Lukwangule Plateau,
2200 m, 9-11.x.2002; collector V Grebennikov.
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 Details of head
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