Tetramorium syriacum Emery, 1924

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, AbdulAziz M. A., Georgiadis, Christos, Nasser, Mohamed G. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2024, Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44), pp. 1705-1786 : 1767

Tetramorium syriacum Emery, 1924

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Tetramorium caespitum subsp. syriaca Emery, 1924: 277 (w.) Syria. Palaearctic.

Diagnosis

Worker. Uniform red-brown to brown; entire body surface with abundantly scattered setae; cephalic surface faintly longitudinally rugose; ground surface smooth and shining, dull; eyes of medium size, with about 8 ommatidia in longest row, and situated nearly at midlength of head in full-face view; scapes, when laid back from their insertions, fail to reach posterior margin of head; underside of head with numerous long and straight setae near posterior buccal cavity; metanotal groove shallowly impressed or indistinct; propodeal spines short and acute; mesosoma dorsum rugoso-reticulate and coarsely microreticulate; petiolar node cubic in profile; dorsum of postpetiole longitudinally rugulose and microreticulate; gaster smooth and shining.

Material examined

Two sites: 6; 8.

Geographic range. This species was originally described from Syria and is reported from the Middle East ( Csősz et al. 2007) and the KSA ( Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996).

Ecology and biology. Unknown.

Figures

Figure 39. Tetramorium syriacum. Worker. (A) Body in profile. (B) Head in full-face view, ANTWEB1041904, AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito). (C) Distribution map.