Tetramorium xuthum Bolton

Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1980: 335, not illustrated, worker). Described from a holotype worker and one paratype specimen, from his own collection at CRIG, being found on bare ground in bright sunlight (15.ix.1970). The nearest taxonomic relatives are from Central Africa. Bolton (1980) found them attacking superficially similar Pheidole ants .

Bolton's description (1980) is at .

WORKER - TL 3.3-3.4 mm; it has very dense pilosity, short dentiform propodeal armature and a uniform dark brown colour.

The photomontage is of the holotype worker; collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0901251.