Lepisiota xxxx Sudan JM 084 Taylor new species

Type location Sudan, worker only described .

WORKER DESCRIPTION: Head sub-circular; clypeus with a weak obtuse median carina; eye relatively small, subcircular and flat (0.30 X length of side of head); promesonotum profile shallowly convex; propodeum profile weakly convex, posterior dorsal angles no more than low cones; petiole scale transversely unusually narrow, apex weakly concave, unusual in being slightly higher than the propodeal declivity; erect pilosity very much reduced, very short, ca 0.05 mm; unsculptured, quite shiny;  and variable red--brown

TL ca 2.2 mm, HL 0.44, HW 0.42, CI 85-88, SL 0.44, SI 113, PW 0.25

Name in recognition of ???.

Specimens deposited in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota Sudan JM084 B Taylor det.	Sudan J Mathews JM 084	24.x.2000 Kordofan 12°56' N 30°35' E	El Ain near El Obeid Plantation Canopy fogging of Acacia senegal	2
Lepisiota Sudan JM084 B Taylor det.	Sudan J Mathews JM 072	23.x.2000 Kordofan 12°56' N 30°35' E	El Ain near El Obeid Plantation Canopy fogging of Acacia senegal	1
Lepisiota Sudan JM084 B Taylor det.	Sudan J Mathews JM 080	24.x.2000 Kordofan 12°56' N 30°35' E	El Ain near El Obeid Plantation Canopy fogging of Acacia senegal	1
Lepisiota Sudan JM084 B Taylor det.	Sudan J Mathews JM 094	25.x.2000 Kordofan 12°56' N 30°35' E	El Ain near El Obeid Plantation Canopy fogging of Acacia senegal	2

The photomontage is of a worker from Sudan, collected by J Mathews, by pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal in semi-natural forest;  Kordofan, El Ain, near El Obeid; ca 12°56' N 30°35' E; JM 084_02; 25.x.2000, 2 workers.

The photomontage is of a worker from Sudan, collected by J Mathews, by pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal in semi-natural forest;  Kordofan, El Ain, near El Obeid; ca 12°56' N 30°35' E; JM 072; 25.x.2000, 2 workers.