Afroxyidris crigensis Belshaw & Bolton
Type location Ghana (Belshaw & Bolton, 1994a: 632,
illustrated, full body profile, anterior views of head, worker)
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WORKER - TL 1.41-1.50 mm; mandible with 2 apical teeth, followed
by a long edentate margin and a small basal tooth; median portion
of clypeus in the form of a transverse step and without
longitudinal carinae or a median seta; antenna 10-segmented,
2-segmented club; eye absent marked by a pigmented spot; head
without frontal carinae or antennal scrobes; alitrunk compact,
metanotal groove shallow; propodeum unarmed and rounded,
metapleural lobes small and rounded; petiole node evenly rounded
in profile with a keel-like ventral process; first gastral tergite
greatly overlapping first sternite; tibial spurs of middle and
hind legs reduced to hairs; sting well-developed; head and body
unsculptured, with fairly dense short hairs, most at 45°
angle; colour yellow.
Single workers were found by R. Belshaw in Berlese funnel
samples of cocoa leaf litter at two widely separated sites; the
holotype from Poano (9.ix.1992) and the paratype from near Ofinso
(2.xi.1992); it is regarded as subterranean (Belshaw & Bolton,
1994b). |
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photomontage of the holotype is collated from