The Ants of Africa
Genus Tapinoma
Tapinoma carininotum Weber

Tapinoma carininotum Weber

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location South Sudan (Tapinoma carininotum spec. nov., Weber, 1943c: 379, illustrated, worker) Imatong Mountains, 22.vii.1939, N A Weber - no images on Antweb (August 2015).
Worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) distribution.


{Tapinoma carininotum}Weber's (1943c) description is at {original description}.
Prior to receipt of specimens from Sudan, I thought this seemed very likely to be a junior synonym of Tapinoma lugubre. However, it seems carininotum is a relatively dusky yellow colour, with weakly contrasting legs and antennae, whilst the true lugubre is quite dark brown with more strongly contrasting pale legs.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det.
Ghana
S Sky Stephens
05G0004
2005
in personal collection of S Sky Stephens
1
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det.
Benin
J-F Vayssieres
RVA 2933
15.ix.2012
Korobourou
09°22'13'' N
02°40'16'' E
Mangifera indica orchard
Quadrat 4, tube 5, variété: Dabshar
Ground nesting

2
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det.
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Tapinoma Cameroon60
17.xii.2005
Awae II
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
Pitfall
1
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det.
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Sample 50
28.vii.2010
Awae II
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E

2
{album}
Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det.
Cameroon
Francis Feugang
3C7

13.x.2009
Yaoundé
03°52' N
11°31" E
sur le cadavre de rat, capture par le fillet
1
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det.
Cameroon
Francis Feugang
14D1

13.x.2009
Yaoundé
03°52' N
11°31" E
sur le cadavre de rat, capture par le fillet
2
{album}
Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det.
Sudan
J Mathews
JM402

20.x.2001
Abu Gmein, Blue Nile
11°21' N
34°27' E
pyrethrum fogging of sengealia senegal
1
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{Tapinoma carininotum} Nigeria specimens (as Tapinoma detorquens, Taylor, 1978: 51). WORKER. TL 1.87 mm, HL 0.51, HW 0.39, SL 0.47, PW 0.25
Colour medium dark yellow-brown, shiny. Eyes set well forward of the midline of the sides of the head. Erect seta at the gastral apex and on the clypeus and mandibles. Dense fine flat pubescence. Propodeum with an acute apex.
Cameroun specimen notes - mandibles and appendages pale yellowish-brown.
Ground nesting, in dead wood and in the soil. It was fairly abundant on cocoa at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, on up to 5% of trees in some blocks, but usually not so common. It can be positively associated with Crematogaster depressa and negatively associated with Pheidole megacephala (Taylor, 1977). Tends aphids. Also found on native herbaceous vegetation, cashew, kola and oil palm.


Tapinoma carininotumThe photomontage is of a wortker from Sudan, Abu Gmein, Blue Nile; collector J Mathews (JM 402); one specimen.
TL ca 2.0 mm, HL 0.53, HW 0.42, CI 75, SL 0.5, SI 138, PW 0.30, eye length 0.15


{Tapinoma carininotum}The photomontage is of a worker from Cameroun; Awae II; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk tapinoma cameroon c60)



{Tapinoma carininotum}The photomontage is of a worker from Ghana, collected by S Sky Stephens (05G0004).

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