Lepisiota xxxx Cameroun FK unmounted 70 Taylor new species

Type location Cameroun; holotype worker only known .

WORKER DESCRIPTION: Head sub-rectangular, in profile flattened ovoid; frons with a long narrow median line; clypeus with strong median carination; eyes large and set laterally, breaking the outline of the face, so that hardly breaking outline of sides (0.30 X length of side of head); scape same width throughout its length; propodeum with small sharp prominences with a spiracle opening on posterior of each prominence; petiole scale with quite narrow profile, as high as the propodeal declivity; also unusually narrow transversely; erect hairs whitish, sparse and quite thick (ca 0.12 mm long); base colour black, antennae and lower legs yellow-brown, appearance overall is dull
TL ca 3.2 mm, HL 0.67, HW 0.53, CI 86, SL 0.80, SI 142, PW 0.38

Appears close in general form to Lepisiota rugithorax but the alitrunk has dense spiculation and not rugosity; rugithorax also has almost no erect hairs other than on the clypeus and apex of the gaster.

Name in recognition of ???.

Specimens deposited in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota n sp Cameroon FK B Taylor det.

Cameroun A Fotso Kuate Sample 70

27.vii.2010 Djazeng 03°54'30" N 11°25'58" E

aphid survey

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The photomontage is of the holotype worker from Cameroun; Djazeng; aphid survey; 27.vii.2010; coll. A Fotso Kuate (fk unmounted 70).