Tetramorium peutli (Forel)

Type location Zaïre (Tetramorium guineense F. r. peutli n. stirps, Forel, 1916: 419, worker & queen) collected at St. Gabriel, by H Kohl; worker and queen described (see Bolton, 1995) .

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

WORKER - TL 2.9-3.5 mm; distinguished by its reduced or absent postpetiolar sculpture. All dorsal surfaces with numerous erect strong hairs. Colour of head, alitrunk and pedicel bright orange or orange-brown, gaster much darker, blackish-brown or black (Bolton, 1980: 272, illustrated).

Bolton (1980) listed findings from Ivory Coast, at Banco Forest (W.L. Brown) and Tai Forest (T. Diomande).

From Ghana, at Mt. Atewa (B. Bolton), Kukuruntami, Sajimasi and Numia (D. Leston) (Bolton, 1980) Later described as widespread in leaf litter (28 workers from 6 sites) by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Also from Gabon (Makokou, by I. Lieberburg), Zaïre (Yangambi, by N.H.L. Krauss; and Epulu, by J.C. Bradley) and Angola.

The photomontages are of specimens collected in Cameroun - south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project) - Cameroon 61 from location IPE, 10 April 2001, in caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana. Other images can be seen in the folder at -