Tetramorium pauper Forel, 1907

Sharaf, Mostafa R., Fisher, Brian L., Collingwood, Cedric A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2017, Ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): zoogeography, distribution and description of a new species, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (5 - 6), pp. 317-378 : 357-359

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1271157
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89612083-9CE6-48E8-8975-1CE5334E098B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6516266
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039DB655-163F-FFD2-B4F5-E7D26FDDCFF0
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tetramorium pauper Forel, 1907
status

Treatment

Tetramorium pauper Forel, 1907 View in CoL

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Tetramorium pauper Forel, 1907:14 View in CoL (w.) Kenya. Afrotropical.

Diagnosis

Worker. Anterior clypeal margin lacking a median notch; frontal carinae very short, ending just behind frontal lobes; antennal scrobes absent; eyes distinctly small with four ommatidia in the longest row; propodeum armed with reduced acute tubercles; cephalic dorsum superficially sculptured; body pilosity short, stout and blunt. Colour uniform yellowish brown or pale brown.

Material examined

Yemen, Socotra Island, Dixam ( W. Zereg), 24 April 2014, 279 m, (M. R. Sharaf leg.), 12.46868°N, 54.01091°E (3 w, KSMA); GoogleMaps Yemen, Socotra Island, Dixam, 24 April 2014, 656 m, (M. R. Sharaf leg.), 12.49320°N, 53.99145°E (3 w, KSMA); GoogleMaps Yemen, Socotra Island, Himihil Protectorate, 23 April 2014, 355 m, (M. R. Sharaf leg.), 12.58954°N, 54.30570°E (1 w, KSMA); GoogleMaps Yemen, Socotra Island, Haydibo, Erheno, 19 April 2014, 33 m, (M. R. Sharaf leg.), 12.65023°N, 54.04016°E (20 w, KSMA) GoogleMaps .

Geographic range

A species originally described from Kenya and recorded for the first time from Socotra Island.

Ecological and biological notes

Tetramorium pauper was found nesting inside a small decayed twig. The soil was moist due to irrigation of the date palm orchard. Several workers were nesting under a rock. A nest series was collected from a dry leaf litter next to a date palm tree using a sifting tray.