Microdaceton tibialis Weber

Type location Zaïre (Microdaceton tibialis new species, Weber, 1952: 30, illustrated, worker ) collected north of Stanleyville, by Weber, 15.iii.1948; worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Weber's (1952) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1983) is at

WORKER - TL 3.2-3.8 mm; separable by the narrow postpetiole in dorsal view, about half the width of the first gastral tergite; no basigastral costulae; colour black to blackish-brown (Bolton, 1983: 403, illustrated, full-face view, and dorsal view of pedicel and base of gaster).

Listed from Ghana by Bolton (1983), at Bunso (D. Leston) and Mampong (P.M. Room). Presumably the latter is the collection given by Room (1971) as exornatum, from cocoa leaf litter at the Mampong Cemetery farm in Ghana. Described as widespread (53 workers from 7 sites) in their leaf litter samples in the semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0005916
Collection details - Locality: Gabon: Prov. Ogooue-Maritime; Aire d'Exploit. Rationnelle de Faune des Monts Doudou, 24.5 km 303° WNW Doussala; 02°13'58"S 010°23'53"E, 630m. Collection Information: Collection codes: BLF2276. Date: 18 Mar 2000. Collected by: B.L.Fisher. Method: EC19 sifted litter (leaf mould, rotten wood). Habitat: rainforest. Transect Type: MW 50 sample transect, 5m Transect Sample No.: 03.