Nesomyrmex innocens (Forel)

Type location Zaïre (Tetramorium (Leptothorax?) innocens n. sp., Forel, 1913b: 317, worker) Elizabethville, Katanga, J Bequaert.
worker only described; genus name change by Bolton (2003: 249) .

Forel's (1913b) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1982) is at

WORKER - TL 2.3-2.5 mm; no frontal carinae or antennal scobes; dorsum of head densely and sharply reticulate-punctate, propodeal spines short and broad. Colour uniform yellow (Bolton, 1982: 330, illustrated).

Collected at Katanga, Elizabethville. Gabriel, by J. Bequaert. Bequaert (1922, p 370) described how it had established regular formicaries, with larvae and pupae, in an old gall of a tree at Elizabethville.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908995

The photomontage is of a worker from Kenya; collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0906195