Key to Afrotropical Tetramorium globulinode species

This worker key is based on Bolton (1986)

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NOTE: Tetramorium caritum is known only from the queen caste.

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• Propodeum armed with a pair of spines or teeth ..... Tetramorium critchleyi

Tetramorium critchleyi

• Propodeum unarmed . . . . . 2

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• Mesosoma and usually also the head with dense, opaque reticulate-punctate sculpture throughout ..... Tetramorium opacum

Tetramorium opacum

• Head and mesosoma in large part smooth and shining . . . . . 3

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• Postpetiole subglobular, in dorsal view up to about 1,5 times broader than long, in profile with a prominent rounded ventral protuberance ..... Tetramorium globulinode

Tetramorium globulinode

• Postpetiole transversely subrectangular, in dorsal view up to about twice broader than long, in profile without a prominent rounded ventral protuberance..... Tetramorium transversinode

Tetramorium transversinode