| Tetraponera penzigi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Genus: | Tetraponera |
| Species: | T. penzigi
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| Binomial name | |
| Tetraponera penzigi (Mayr, 1907)
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Tetraponera penzigi is a species of ant of the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae, which can be found in East Africa. It forms an obligate symbiosis with the whistling thorn acacia (Vachellia drepanolobium), a dominant tree in some upland areas of East Africa.[1]
- ^ Young, T.P.; C.H. Stubblefield; L.A. Isbell (December 1996). "Ants on swollen-thorn acacias: Species coexistence in a simple system" (PDF). Oecologia. 109 (1): 98–107. doi:10.1007/s004420050063. PMID 28307618. S2CID 26354370.