The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetraponera
Tetraponera gerdae (Stitz)

Tetraponera gerdae (Stitz)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Tanzania (Sima gerdae n. sp., Stitz, 1911b: 381, illustrated, queen; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 797) from Amani, collector Voessler, in an Anomma [Dorylus] nest - see below.

Holotype queen only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

{Tetraponera gerdae}Stitz's (1911b) description is at {original description}.

{Tetraponera gerdae queen}The photomontage of the type queen is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=focol1171.

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