Tetramorium setuliferum Emery

Type location South Africa (original description as Tetramorium squamiferum, Forel, 1894b: 80, attributed to Emery "in litt"*, material referred to setuliferum by Wheeler, 1922: 903; Tetramorium setuliferum, Emery, 1895h: 36, worker; Forel, 1910f: 19, queen; Arnold, 1917: 290, male) Orange Free State, Weitzecker - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0904839
junior synonym cucalense (Tetramorium setuliferum Em. var. cucalense nov., Santschi, 1911c: 356, worker; Santschi, 1930b: 71, queen) from Angola, Benguela, J Cruchet - see   http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0915425
its junior synonym triptolemus (Tetramorium setuliferum Em. var. triptolemus n. v., Arnold, 1917: 292, worker) from Zambia - see below
all forms described (see Bolton, 1995). * Forel listed findings at "Delagoa (Dr Liengme), Natal (Wroughton)" but these do not match any findings of setuliferum .

Emery's (1895h) description is at . Santschi's (1911c) description of cucalense is at . Arnold (1917: 290) gave an illustrated translation, this is at and . Arnold's (1917) description of triptolemus, with a note on cucalense, is at . Bolton's modern description (1980) is at .

The photomontage of a syntype worker of the junior synonym triptolemus is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901177

WORKER - TL 4.4-6.0 mm (Bolton, 1980: 250, illustrated).

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetramorium setuliferum B Taylor det.

Namibia D J Mann OUMNH-2006-093

15.xii.1999 Caprivi Park 17°46'56" S 23°16'31" E

Immelmann runway, 4 km W Dead millipede baited PF trap coll. Mann & Marais

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The photomontage is of workers from Namibia, Caprivi Park; collector D J Mann (OUMNH-2006-093)

The specimens in these field photographs were taken in Pretoria, South Africa, by Joan Young; nos IMG 7736 to IMG 7749