Tapinolepis (Mesanoplolepis) decolor (Emery)

Type locality South Africa (Plagiolepis decolor n. sp., Emery, 1895h: 44, worker; Forel, 1910f: 23, queen & male; in Plagiolepis (Anoplolepis) Arnold, 1922: 599; in Anoplolepis, Emery, 1925b: 17; in subgenus Mesanoplolepis Santschi, 1926a: 14) Kimberley, Hamman's Kraal
all forms described; (in subgenus Mesanoplolepis, Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1895h) description is at . Forel's (1910f) description of the queen & male is at . Arnold's (1922) translation is at .

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905138