Tetramorium syriacum Emery 1924

Tetramorium syriacum Emery, 1924 (Figure 39) Tetramorium caespitum subsp. syriaca Emery, 1924: 277 (w.) Syria. Palaearctic. Diagnosis Worker. Uniform red-brown to brown; entire body surface with abundantly scattered setae; cephalic surface faintly longitudinally rugose; ground surface smooth and shining, dull; eyes of medium size, with about 8 ommatidia in longest row, and situated nearly at midlength of head in full-face view; scapes, when laid back from their insertions, fail to reach posterior margin of head; underside of head with numerous long and straight setae near posterior buccal cavity; metanotal groove shallowly impressed or indistinct; propodeal spines short and acute; mesosoma dorsum rugoso-reticulate and coarsely microreticulate; petiolar node cubic in profile; dorsum of postpetiole longitudinally rugulose and microreticulate; gaster smooth and shining. Material examined Two sites: 6; 8. Geographic range. This species was originally described from Syria and is reported from the Middle East (Csősz et al. 2007) and the KSA (Collingwood 1985; Collingwood and Agosti 1996). Ecology and biology. Unknown.