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SUBFAMILY PSEUDOMYRMECINAE - Genus Tetraponera - Tetraponera erythraea (Emery)

Tetraponera erythraea (Emery)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Yemen (Aden) (Sima ambigua ssp erythraea, Emery, 1895h: 23, worker; Emery, 1893f: 256; raised to species Collingwood, 1985: 242).

Emery's (1895h) description (with ambigua) is at {original description}.

Collingwood (1985: 242) noted - specimens in NHMB (Berne) have the propodeum obtusely angled and not smoothly rounded as in T. bifoveolata.

{Tetraponera erythraea}Egypt records - none until the Mostafa Sharaf findings - Wadi Firan, near St.Katherine, Southern Sinai, foraging under Acacia tree; also in Sharaf list - material examined: Wadi Hebika, Abu-Galoum (South Sinai), 16.xi.1994 (2) Leg. Dr. Hasan H. Fadl. (ASUC). .

The photomontage is of specimens from Egypt, taken by Mostafa Sharaf.
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