Tetraponera claveaui (Santschi)

Type location Senegal (Sima Claveaui n. sp., Santschi, 1913c: 304, worker; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 797) collected by Claveau
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1913c) description is at .

WORKER (my translation) - TL 3.4 mm; colour black, appendages rust, mandibular teeth, apex of funiculus and most of legs brownish. shiny, smooth, microscopically reticulated with sparse hair pits. Anterior of head finely longitudinally striate. Head rectangular, almost twice as long as wide, with parallel sides slightly narrowing posteriorly, posterior border feebly concave. Eyes less than one-third length of head, set about the mid-point (larger in liengmei); no ocelli. Scape reaching mid-point of the eye; funiculus very short and very thick, first segment as long as following four together. Thorax narrower than the head, with all four sutures distinct and deep, profile horizontal. Pronotum convex not bordered, distinctly longer than wide. Mesonotum and metanotum subequal. Propodeum with dorsum feebly raised, concave transversely, with a rounded angle into a short declivity. Petiole node spherical in profile, pear-shaped from above with the posterior wide. Postpetiole similar to the petiole but more spherical in profile and dorsal views (latter is oval in penzigi). Separable from liengmei and penzigi by its elongated head and the postpetiole shape.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915527.

The photomontage is of a specimen from Gambia, collected by Mike Lush; only the second record of this species. Other images can be seen in the folder at -

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetraponera claveaui B Taylor det.	Senegal Lamine Diamé 02	22.vii.2012 Thiés 14°45'N 17°03'W	Pitfall 15 Ensa VIII	1
Tetraponera claveaui B Taylor det.	Senegal Lamine Diamé 03	23.iv.2012 Thiés 14°45'N 17°03'W	Pitfall 1 Ensa VIII	1

The photomontage is of a worker from Senegal; Thiés; collector Lamine Diamé (02)