Lepisiota xxxx Sudan JM 074-02 Taylor new species

Type location Sudan, worker only described .

WORKER DESCRIPTION: Small, occiput near straight; eyes almost flat and slightly inset into surface of head, narrow ovoid ca 1.7 longer than wide (0.37 X length of side of head); pronotum shallowly convex, in dorsal view alitrunk short and relatively wide (pronotum wider than length of promesonotum); petiole emarginate, moderately thick; legs unusually short with wide, seemingly flattened femora; sparse short yellow pilosity on gaster only (ca 0.05 mm); shiny unsculptured, alitrunk yellow brown, head and gaster darker;
TL ca 1.7 mm, HL 0.49, HW 0.42, CI 83, SL 0.50, SI 121, PW 0.30
Kordofan 1 tree (2) (tree also with the larger and dark red-brown species Lepisiota jm 073).

Name in recognition of ???.

Specimens deposited in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota Sudan JM074 B Taylor det.

Sudan J Mathews JM 074

23.x.2000 Kordofan 12°56' N 30°35' E

El Ain near El Obeid Gum garden Canopy fogging of Acacia senegal

2

The photomontage is of the holotype worker specimen from Sudan, collected by J Mathews, by pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal; 23.x.2000, 2 workers.