The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetramorium
Tetramorium surrogatum (Bolton)

Tetramorium surrogatum (Bolton)

return to group key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Eritrea (Triglyphothrix silvestrii n., Emery, 1915g: 17, illustrated, worker; replacement name, Bolton, 1985: 247; type location wrongly given as Ethiopia) Nefasit
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

{Tetramorium surrogatum}Emery's (1915g) description is at {original description} Bolton's modern description (Triglyphothrix silvestrii, Bolton, 1976: 336, not illustrated) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 3.1 mm.

{Tetramorium surrogatum} The photomontage is of the type worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0904793.

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