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Tetramorium is a very diverse genus in the Old World tropics, particularly Africa. In the New World, there is a small representation of native species in southern North America, but the Neotropics appear to have no native species, instead being sporadically inhabited by a few tramp species that favor synanthropic habitats and have no doubt been dispersed by human activity.
The genus has been revised by Bolton (1976, 1977, 1979, 1980).
Literature Cited
Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 34:281-379.
Bolton, B. 1977. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Oriental and Indo-Australian regions, and in Australia. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 36:67-151.
Bolton, B. 1979. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Malagasy region and in the New World. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 38:129-181.
Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 40:193-384.
Page author: John T. Longino longinoj@evergreen.edu
Date of this version: 14 April 2003.