The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetraponera
Tetraponera encephala (Santschi)

Tetraponera encephala (Santschi)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Senegal (Sima encephala n. sp., Santschi, 1919h: 84, queen; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 797) from St. Louis, collected by Claveau
queen only described (see Bolton, 1995) .


Santschi's (1919h) description is at {original description}. Synonymized under Tetraponera ambigua by Ward (2006: 123).


Tetraponera claveauiThe photomontage of the type queen is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915528.

This appears very similar to the queen I have of Tetraponera bifoveolata from Tanzania.

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