Lepisiota Senegal Wassa

Type location Senegal worker only.

I have separated this from Lepisiota frauenfeldi which looks quite different, being black brown, brilliant, almost glabrous, covered with superficial and very fine striations ("rides"); mandibles, antennae except the apex of the scape, alitrunk, articulations of the femora and tarsi reddish yellow; often the alitrunk has several brown patches. It may be the same as another apparently new form from Cameroun - Lepisiota new species Cameroon fk um70

Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota n sp Wassa B Taylor det.

Senegal Tambacounda B Ndiaye

4.v.2009 Wassa 13°06'30"N 12°05'18" W

Wassa 04-V-09 St 1 P6F "Morphotype 10" Soudanian savannah, pitfall traps

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The photomontage is of a worker from Senegal,  East Senegal, Wassa, Wassa 04-V-09 St 1 P6F, "Morphotype 10", Soudanian savannah, pitfall traps, one worker.