Lepisiota depressa (Santschi)

Type location Kenya (Acantholepis depressa, Santschi 1914b: 126, illustrated, worker) - no images on Antweb (October 2014)

Worker only described .

Santschi's (1914b) description is on . Santschi (1935a: 275) noted that this species has a marked metallic violaceous blue sheen, like Lepisiota submetallica but if anything even more pronounced.

WORKER - TL 2.2-2.4 mm; HL slightly > HW; scapes surpassing occiput by over 1/3 of their own length; petiole with feeble teeth; moderately abundant yellowish-white pilosity, pubescence sparse white appressed ; black, appendages blackish-brown.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota depressa B Taylor det.

Tanzania G McGavin tree 5-60

12.i.1997 Mkomazi 3°54.75' S 37°48.58' E

pkd collection from Acacia dendropanolobium; L99037M 0374884 UTM 9571017

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The photomontage is of a specimen from Tanzania, Mkomazi Game Reserve, 3°54.75' S 37°48.58' E, pkd collection from Acacia drepanolobium, 12.i.1997, by G McGavin (Tree 5-60).

The photomontage is compiled from screenshots of the ant from a film "The Queen of Trees", on Ficus sycomorus L. (Sycamore Fig - found throughout eastern Africa and north into Egypt and Syria); filmed, directed and produced by Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone; scientific advisor Stephen Compton, BBC Natural World series, 2005. The film is set in southern Kenya (Mzima?).