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Tetramorium miserabile
| Tetramorium miserabile | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Tetramorium |
| Species: | T. miserabile |
| Binomial name | |
| Tetramorium miserabile Santschi, 1918
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The one non-type record of T. miserabile was collected from the trunk of Acacia xanthophloeum in an Acacia woodland.
Identification
Bolton (1980) - A member of the Tetramorium camerunese species complex in the Tetramorium camerunense species group. Of the known species related to T. miserabile, Tetramorium luteipes has the mandibles finely longitudinally striate, Tetramorium gegaimi has the promesonotal dorsum sculptured with a disorganized ruguloreticulum, and Tetramorium browni has the pilosity of the alitrunk different from that of T. miserabile, as indicated in the discussion of that species.
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Kenya (type locality), United Republic of Tanzania.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
| Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species. |
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Estimated Abundance
| Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- miserabile. Tetramorium miserabilis Santschi, 1918c: 153 (w.) KENYA. See also: Bolton, 1980: 342.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Description
Worker
Bolton (1980) - TL 3.1, HL 0.75, HW 0.68, CI 91, SL 0.54, SI 79, PW 0.46, AL 0.82.
Mandibles mostly smooth but with some faint marks between the pits. Median clypeal impression weakly developed. Frontal carinae quite strong, distinctly more robust than any of the cephalic sculpturation, extending back well beyond the level of the eyes but petering out on the occiput. Maximum diameter of eye 0.14, about 0.21 x HW. Occipital margin of head broadly but quite shallowly concave, the sides of the head narrowly but evenly convex. Dorsal alitrunk evenly convex in profile, the propodeal spines straight and acute. Metapleural lobes triangular and acute. Petiole in profile as shown in Fig. 116, in dorsal view subglobular, slightly broader than long, the dorsum rounding into the sides and the anterior and posterior faces. Dorsum of head feebly longitudinally rugulose, the spaces between the low, weak rugulae filled with a fairly conspicuous superficial sculpture of shagreening or punctulation. Promesonotum with only feebly defined rugulose sculpture, predominantly longitudinal in direction but low and weak, the spaces between rugulae sculptured as the head; propodeal dorsum with stronger rugulose sculpture. Petiole, postpetiole and gaster unsculptured. All dorsal surfaces of head and body with numerous quite short, blunt hairs but the scapes and hind tibiae only with fine decumbent or appressed short pubescence. Colour a uniform pale brownish yellow, the appendages slightly lighter than the body.
Type Material
Bolton (1980) - Holotype worker, KENYA (Reichensperger) (Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel) [examined].
References
- Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 40(3):193-384.
- Santschi, F. 1918c. Nouveaux Tetramorium africains (Suite et fin). Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord 9: 153-156 (page 153, worker described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Bolton B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 40: 193-384.