Lepisiota xxxx Sudan JM 362 Taylor new species

Type location Sudan, worker only described .

WORKER DESCRIPTION: Very distinctive shiny unsculptured, yellow brown, gaster darker; pronotum dorsally flattened; head sub-square, widest behind the eyes; eyes ovoid moderately convex (0.37 X length of side of head); in profile head sub-circular with broadly convex lower side; clypeus with strong median carina running right to anterior margin; propodeum dorsum with distinctive longitudinal septum; petiole narrow and emarginate apically; abundant erect yellow pilosity (ca 0.16 mm long)
TL ca 2.7 mm, HL 0.68, HW 0.58, CI 90, SL 0.73, SI 131, PW 0.43
Khordonia 1 tree (6). Holotype and two other workers

Name in recognition of ???.

Specimens deposited in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Lepisiota Sudan JM362 B Taylor det.

Sudan J Mathews JM 362

14.x.2001 Khordonia 11°51' N 34°15' E

Blue Nile, Damazine Plantation Semi-natural forest Canopy fogging of Acacia senegal

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The photomontage is of a specimen from Sudan, collected by J Mathews, by pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal;  Khordonia, Damazine Plantation, Blue Nile - 11°51' N 34°15' E; JM 362; 14.x.2001, 3 workers.

The photomontage is of a second specimen