Tetramorium meressei Forel

The type location was in Zaïre (Forel, 1916: 422, worker) collected by H Kohl; worker only described .

Forel's (1916) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1980) is at .

WORKER - Forel had TL 2.6-2.9 mm, Bolton gave TL 3.2-3.5 mm; both it and Tetramorium psymanum have a dense pelt of elongate fine soft hairs, and a high postpetiole with an abrupt vertical posterior face, the latter species also has no propodeal teeth. This species is yellow and psymanum is mid-brown (Bolton, 1980: 349, illustrated).

Wheeler (1922) described how Bequaert found a specimen in Zaïre, from the domatia of a Cuviera, other swellings were occupied by Axinidris denticulatum (as Engramma denticulatum; see also Bequaert, 1922, p 492). Bolton himself collected it in Ghana, at CRIG, but gave no details (Bolton, 1980), he also discovered a distinctive specimen which matched the label details but clearly was not meressei - that he named as Tetramorium unicum.