Tetramorium alternans Santschi, 2006

Güsten, R., Schulz, A. & Sanetra, M., 2006, Redescription of Tetramorium forte Forel, 1904 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a western Mediterranean ant species., Zootaxa 1310, pp. 1-35 : 27

Tetramorium alternans Santschi , 1929 nov. stat.

Tetramorium caespitum v. alternans Santschi , 1929

Cagniant (1997), treating this taxon as a subspecies of T. caespitum , cites records from diverse sites throughout Morocco. We have recently procured further samples, including the first known gyne ( Morocco, Middle Atlas, Reg. Meknes, in CAS) , and regard it as a good species which may occur throughout the Maghreb. Some specimens from Tunisia (in NHMB) are very similar , as are workers from the northeastern mountains of Teneriffa .