The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetraponera Tetraponera mayri (Forel)
Tetraponera mayri (Forel)
Type location Cameroun
(Sima Mayri nov. sp., Forel, 1901h: 53, queen; in Tetraponera,
Wheeler, 1922: 798) collected by Dr H. Brauns - no images on Antweb (January 2019)
Queen only described
(see Bolton, 1995) .
Forel's (1901h) description is at .
Santschi (1919h) describing the queen of Tetraponera
tessmannicompared that with mayri, noting that the
latter had a more
distinctly dentate clypeus.This has TL 6.3 mm, the tessmanni queen is TL 5 mm.