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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Tetramorium - Tetramorium schmidti Forel
caespitum-group

Tetramorium schmidti Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Israel (Tetramorium caespitum L. v. Schmidti n. var., Forel, 1904c: 15, worker; Karavaiev, 1912a: 14, queen [unavailable]; raised to species Aktaç, 1977: 123 - simple use of name and note on Turkish specimens).

Forel's (1904c) description is at {original description}.

Egypt records - Wheeler & Mann (1916) from Wadi Feran, Sinai.

{Tetramorium schmidti} The photomontage is of specimens collected in the Sinai Desert, Egypt, St Katherine protectorate around the town of St Katherine, in mountains above 1500m, in early 2002, by Mike James, a research student of Francis Gilbert. Other images can be seen in the folder at {original description}.

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