The Ants of Africa
Genus Tapinoma
Tapinoma Nigeria T1 Taylor new species

Tapinoma Nigeria T1 Taylor new species

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{Tapinoma species T1}Nigeria specimen: TL 1.87 mm, HL 0.50, HW 0.40, SL 0.40, PW 0.28. Colour all over yellow-brown. Erect hairs on ventral apex of the gaster, on the clypeus and 2 on the forecoxa. Dense fine pubescence. Eyes set in slight depressions on the sides of the head. Alitrunk almost flat in profile, with propodeum obtusely angled and the declivity flat.

I collected it from a nest in dead wood on a cocoa tree at CRIN (Taylor, 1978: 49).

Specimen deposited with the Natural History Museum, London, c/o B Bolton, in 1976.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Tapinoma nsp Taylor T1
B Taylor det.		 Benin
J-F Vayssieres
RVA 3096.5
 9.xi.2011
Kika-Beterou
09°14'07'' N
02°11'52'' E
 Isoberlinia doka
beating
 1
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Tapinoma nsp Taylor T1
B Taylor det.		 Benin
J-F Vayssieres
RVA 3098.2

 9.xi.2011
Kika-Beterou
09°14'07'' N
02°11'52'' E
 Terminalia laxiflora
 1
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Tapinoma nsp Taylor T1
B Taylor det.

 Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Sample 57

 28.vii.2010
Nko’ondo
00°34' N
09°19' E
 aphid survey

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{Tapinoma species Nigeria T1}The photomontage is of a worker from Cameroun; Nko'ondo; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk unmounted 57)

{Tapinoma species Nigeria T1}The photomontage is of a worker from Cameroun as above but unmounted and undried

{Tapinoma species Nigeria T1}The photomontage is of a worker from Benin, Kika-Beterou; collector J-F Vayssieres (RVA 3096).

{Tapinoma species Nigeria T1}The photomontage is of a worker from Benin, Kika-Beterou; collector J-F Vayssieres (RVA 3098).
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