Simopone schoutedeni Santschi
  Type location Zaïre
(Simopone Schoutedeni n. sp.,
Santschi, 1923e: 260, illustrated, worker) Kamaiembi, near Luebo, by
Dr Schouteden, 17.xi.1921
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Brown (1975: 81) described examining the unique worker
type specimen - HL 0.97 mm, HW 0.67 behind the eyes; Petiole disc very
slightly narrowed in front and margined both front and rear, almost
square. Head coarsely punctate, space between eyes and frontal carinae
finely longitudinally reticulo-striate, near sericeous. Coarse
punctures also on the shining, near smooth, alitrunk dorsum. Petiole
and postpetiole more densely and finely punctate, gaster even more
finely so but still shining. Pilosity of reclining white pubescence.
Colour black, clypeus and femora brown, antennae, tibiae, tarsi and
mandibles yellowish.
Later the same day, he saw a specimen from Yangambi (A Raignier and J
van Boven), taken with other specimens nesting in hollow twigs in Zaïre.
Bolton & Fisher (2012: 37) wrote of schoutedeni as
"still known only from the holotype"
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Santschi's
(1923e) description is on 
The photomontage of the
holotype worker is
collated from