Key to Afrotropical Tetramorium globulinode species

This worker key is based on Bolton (1986)

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NOTE: Tetramorium caritum is known only from the queen caste.

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 * Propodeum armed with a pair of spines or teeth ..... Tetramorium critchleyi
 * Propodeum unarmed . . . . . 2

2
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 * Mesosoma and usually also the head with dense, opaque reticulate-punctate sculpture throughout ..... Tetramorium opacum
 * Head and mesosoma in large part smooth and shining . . . . . 3

3
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 * Postpetiole subglobular, in dorsal view up to about 1,5 times broader than long, in profile with a prominent rounded ventral protuberance ..... Tetramorium globulinode
 * Postpetiole transversely subrectangular, in dorsal view up to about twice broader than long, in profile without a prominent rounded ventral protuberance..... Tetramorium transversinode