The Ants of Africa
Genus Nesomyrmex
Nesomyrmex innocens (Forel)
{Nesomyrmex innocens}

Nesomyrmex innocens (Forel)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Tetramorium (Leptothorax?) innocens, Forel, 1913b: 317, worker); worker only described; genus name change by Bolton (2003: 249) .

Forel's (1913b) description is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1982) is at {original description}

WORKER - TL 2.3-2.5 mm; no frontal carinae or antennal scobes; dorsum of head densely and sharply reticulate-punctate, propodeal spines short and broad. Colour uniform yellow (Bolton, 1982: 330, illustrated).

Collected at Katanga, Elizabethville. Gabriel, by J. Bequaert. Bequaert (1922, p 370) described how it had established regular formicaries, with larvae and pupae, in an old gall of a tree at Elizabethville.
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