Technomyrmex (T.) n sp Cameroun um20
  Type location Cameroun (holotype worker only)
Babedjou.
WORKER
DESCRIPTION: head shape ovoid with a near
straight occiput;
anterior clypeal margin very widely and very shallowly arcuately
impressed;
eyes set less than 2x own
length from occiput; no visible ocelli; scapes unusually thick and
surpassing the occiput by little more than the apical thickness,
funiculus also relatively thick with segments 2-9 barely longer than
wide; promesonotum evenly but shallowly convex in
profile; propodeal dorsum short with a
sharp angle to the declivity, latter flat, with distinct margination;
alitrunk wholly lacking in erect hairs; short decumbent hairs on all
gaster
segments; whole body with a quite dense covering of minute pubescence;
whole surface with fine spiculate sculpture, stronger on the mesoniotum
and propdeum, quite shiny; almost completely dark
brown, including coxae; general form shorter and stockier than other
species.
TL ca 3.2 mm, HW 0.59, HL 0.67, CI 89,
OI 31; SL 0.53, SI 100, PW 0.40.
Cameroun, Babedjou; 3.ix.2008; aphid survey; Coll.
Fotso Kuate.
The Bolton (2007) key to Afrotropical and west
Palaearctic species breaks down at couplet 2: "second gastral tergite
with setae present (absent from the first tergite)" as this specimen
has short but distinct setae (or decumbent hairs) on all gastral
segments.
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The
photomontage is of the holotype specimen.