Tetramorium khyarum Bolton

Type location Nigeria (Bolton, 1980: 329, illustrated, propodeum only, worker) .

Savannah species from Zaria, the holotype and 4 paratype workers (D. Simpson, 11.iii.1969) (Bolton, 1980).

Bolton's description (1980) is at .

WORKER - TL 4.0-4.3 mm; distinguished by the single pair of hairs on the propodeal dorsum, and the lack of projecting hairs behind the eyes; otherwise all dorsal surfaces with stout standing hairs. First gastral tergite with dense minute sculpturation so that the surface has a silky appearance. Colour dull red, gaster blackish-brown.

Bolton also listed findings from Ivory Coast (Plantation Niecky by W.L. Brown), Zaïre and Botswana, describing it as widely distributed but seeming not to be very common.

Note: Collingwood (1985, illustrated, right) recorded it from Saudi Arabia, noting that it is very similar in appearance to sericeiventre but the latter lacks the one or two pairs of hairs on the propodeal dorsum of khyarum. Bolton, however, explicitly described it as having a single pair of hairs on the propodeal dorsum.

The photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901246.