Tetraponera triangularis (Stitz)

Type location Equatorial Guinea (Sima triangularis n. sp., Stitz, 1910: 131, worker; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 800) holotype worker only, collected at Alen, by Tessmann - see below
subspecies illota (Sima triangularis Stitz stirps illota n. st., Santschi, 1914d: 334, worker & queen) from Nigeria (Olokemeji, collector F. Silvestri - see below
Worker and queen described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Stitz's (1910) description is at and Santschi's (1914d) description of illota is at .

TL 7.5 mm; fine white sparse pilosity, short whitish pubescence on thorax and gaster; sculpturation of very fine dense puncturation on head and thorax; black, with anterior of head, posterior border of gaster segments and appendages yellow brown. Head shape similar to mocquerysi but with larger eyes and three ocelli.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=focol11531.

The photomontage of the type worker of illota is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915541. This and the worker from the Central African Republic (below) are a close match.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tetraponera triangularis B Taylor det.

Central African Republic P Annoyer FM

10.ii.2005 Dzanga-Sangha 02°50'01.8" N 16°08'13.7" E

375 m; Camp 3; 19h30; Ampoule classique 40 watts au camp

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The photomontage is of a worker from the Central African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha Nature Reserve; collector Philippe Annoyer (CAR FM 1).