<documentid="33DA21194E785CDA1434F5C15C10584B"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="03A33567FF8654011CD08464FB823C5C"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 rufonigra"docType="treatment"docVersion="11"lastPageNumber="61"masterDocId="FF9A4D1FFFBD543D1C478336FFC13E45"masterDocTitle="The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species"masterLastPageNumber="70"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="60"updateTime="1731941853110"updateUser="carolina">
<mods:titleid="FD8112CC5C1A4C270DDDDEFE46C07CB1">The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species</mods:title>
. Large species with broad head (CI 0.86–0.99); masticatory margin of mandible usually with four teeth, preceded by a single tooth on basal margin (in one Asian species masticatory margin with five teeth and basal margin without teeth); basal margin subequal in length to masticatory margin; labrum either lacking prominent tubercles (Asian species) or with a single median tubercle near proximal margin; ventral surface of clypeus with a transverse carina, anterior to posteroventral border, weakened medially in African species; frontal carinae well separated in African species (FCI 0.21–0.35), less so in Asian species (FCI 0.09–0.16); scape length one half or more of head width (SI 0.49–0.63); head capsule with three prominent ocelli; pronotal humeri subangulate in dorsal view; metanotal plate lacking; mesosterum not densely pubescent; petiole with prominent anteroventral tooth, generally directed posteroventrally; posteroventral margin of petiole closely associated with helcium venter, lacking a ventrally extended hood; metabasitarsal sulcus present; appressed pubescence dense on abdominal tergite 4.
. This group comprises four Asian species that are apparently generalists, nesting in dead (and sometimes live) twigs and branches of a wide variety of plants, and two West African species that are specialist inhabitants of the antplant
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