<documentid="9768FC117CD0F5C7E477185A2E07839E"ID-CLB-Dataset="94528"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1"ID-GBIF-Dataset="ad30faa6-eab1-4dae-b686-9e5fee56f55c"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="6245602"ID-ZooBank="BEA963B7-F7B9-458A-92EE-A4740AC390AC"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="carolina"IM.treatments_approvedBy="carolina"checkinTime="1645601333553"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Ward, Philip S."docDate="2022"docId="03A33567FFA454241CD083E9FD6A3D50"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5102.1.1.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5102 (1)"docStyle="DocumentStyle:5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3.19:Zootaxa.2013-.monograph"docStyleId="5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.monograph"docStyleVersion="19"docTitle="Tetraponera allaborans"docType="treatment"docVersion="10"lastPageNumber="26"masterDocId="FF9A4D1FFFBD543D1C478336FFC13E45"masterDocTitle="The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species"masterLastPageNumber="70"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="26"updateTime="1731941483715"updateUser="carolina">
<mods:titleid="2E073B6AA3619264D7FF4470150447B9">The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species</mods:title>
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). Small to medium-sized species (HW 0.41–1.15); masticatory margin of mandible usually with four (rarely five) teeth, the basal margin edentate and shorter than masticatory margin; in a subset of species (the Asian
complex) masticatory margin with three teeth, basal margin with 1–2 small teeth and longer than masticatory margin; labrum without prominent teeth or tubercles or with a median tubercle near the proximal margin, widely flanked by a lateral pair; anteromedial margin of clypeus variable (crenulate, toothed or entire); frontal carinal distance variable (FCI 0.08– 0.25); scape length about two thirds of head width or less (SI 0.41–0.71); compound eyes directed anteriorly; head capsule usually lacking ocelli, rarely with a weak lateral pair; pronotum with weak to moderate lateral margination; mesonotum about as long as wide, ovoid or subrectangular in dorsal view; mesopropodeal impression usually containing a raised transverse metanotal plate, but this reduced or lost in some species; posteroventral margin of petiole well separated from the helcium venter; metabasitarsal sulcus present; mesosternum densely pubescent.
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), it is the most species-rich, both globally and regionally.