WORKER - TL ca 4.9 mm; HL 1.1 HW 0.7 SL 0.4 EL 0.42 PW 0.42; CI 65 SI 67 OI 63
Colour yellow-orange; alitrunk
and petiole sharply margined and with distinct ocelli, characteristic
of former genus Sima members.
The presence of subpetiolar spines and the size ally it with Tetraponera prelli
but this is
readily separated from that by: being about 15% smaller; the small near globular postpetiole and
the well defined metanotal groove. Head in full face view
elongated with rounded occipital corners to a near flat occiput. Sparse
subdecumbent erect hairs on head, alitrunk and gaster. Apical segmenst
of funiculus distinctively darker than rest. Anterior margin of
clypeus weakly convex with five rounded teeth, the median tooth not
greatly pronounced. Mandibleas relatively stout. Frontal carinae
divergent but reaching only about half the distance back to the
anterior level of the eyes. Whole body distinctly sculptured with
very fine spiculation, much reduced on the gaster which is near shiny.
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The
photomontage is of a worker from Nambia, Kuzikus; collector H
Campbell (tree 160). 