Tapinoma
debouti Taylor new species
  Type location Cameroun
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WORKER DESCRIPTION: Head elongated,
HL > HW, with a relatively straight occiput; mandibles
large relative to size of head, inner margin with a series of small
denticles rather than defined teeth. Anterior margin of clypeus with
weak emargination; eyes set well forward of the midline of the
sides of the head; scapes very short (under two-thirds of HL);
funiculus apical segment swollen, segments 9-10 slightly larger than
2-8; alitrunk in dorsal view with near right angled anterior
lateral shoulders; promesonotal suture arched forward; in profile near
flat
with a shallow depression at the mesonotum-propodeum junction;
propodeum with rounded raised transition from dorsum to declivity,
declivity flat; erect
setae only on the clypeus; dense fine flat pubescence; head, alitrunk
and gaster dull
due to dense imbrication; colour dark brown, except antenna,
tarsi and tibiae which are colourless.
TL 1.45-1.59 mm, HL 0.47, HW 0.40, CI = 112, SL 0.31, SI
= 77, PW 0.26
Specimens collected in Cameroun
- south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa
and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project)
Cameroon 60 from location LOL, 10 April 2001 (Lolabé - river at
2°39.40' N 9°51.81' E; road descending to river), six workers
Cameroon 28 from location GRO, 25 March 2001 (Grotte - at
2°34.05' N 9°54.01' E), one queen and seven workers
Cameroon 30 from location
KIEN, 05 April 2001 (Kienké - swamp/river alongside
plantations at 2°52.02' N 9°59.13' E; marshy land), two queens and four
workers
All
from in caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana.
Named in recognition of one of the two collectors,
Gabriel Debout.
Specimens deposited in the Oxford University Museum of
Natural History.
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Second
worker from Cameroon 28
The
photomontage is of a queen collected with
workers from Cameroon 30.