Tetramorium punicum (F Smith)

Type location Israel (Myrmica punicum, F Smith, 1861a: 34, worker; Finzi, 1936: 182, male; raised to species Dalla Torre, 1893: 134 [name only]; see Collingwood, 1978: 71) - no images on Antweb (October 2015).
Subspecies cyrenaicum (Tetramorium caespitum punicum F. Smith var. cyrenaicum n., Emery, 1924a: 10, all forms; as Tetramorium punicum var cyrenaicum, first available use, Menozzi, 1927g: 379; name and record only) from Libya, Cyrenaica, Takra, Silvestri - see below.

F Smith's (1861a) description is at . Finzi's (1936) description of the male is at . Emery's (1924a) description of cyrenaicum is at .

Egypt records - Wheeler & Mann (1916) from Mt Sinai, Sinai; Alfieri (1931) Fayoum Province, Manchiet El Fayoum, 24.x.1925; Finzi (1936).

Note: Type specimen apparently not located in BMNH by the Antweb team.

The photomontage of a type worker of cyrenaicum is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0904826.