Tetramorium sericeiventre, Emery, 1877

Francisco Hita Garcia, T. T. & Fisher, Brian L., 2011, 3039, Zootaxa 3039, pp. 1-72 : 31

Tetramorium sericeiventre species group

Diagnosis

12-segmented antennae; anterior clypeal margin entire and without any median impression; lateral clypeus characteristically modified, in full-face view distinctly raised in front of antennal condyle and projecting forward as a tooth or denticle; frontal carinae weakly developed to absent; anterior face of mesosoma weakly developed, margination between dorsal and lateral mesosoma weak to absent; propodeal spines medium-sized; propodeal lobes elongate-triangular and roughly of same length as propodeal spines; petiolar node rectangular nodiform, longer than high to as long as high and longer than wide to as long as wide; postpetiole roughly rounded; mandibles strongly sculptured; sculpturation of head, mesosoma, and waist segments highly variable, usually reticulaterugose with reticulate-punctulate ground sculpture providing granular appearance, but in one species all possible reductions of this sculpturation observable; first gastral tergite usually sculptured but to variable extent; all dorsal surfaces with sparse to moderately abundant standing pilosity; sting appendage triangular.