Ocymyrmex gariepensis Prins & Roux

Type location South Africa (Prins & Roux, in Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1282, worker diagnosis in key) - no type images on Antweb (January 2015) .

Bolton & Marsh (1989) have "in press" but the description seems never to have been published? Apparently close to Ocymyrmex cavatodorsatus.

The Bolton & Marsh key has "Mandible usually with only 4 teeth, rarely the third tooth with a minute denticle at its base.  Only the third tooth (counting from the apical) paired internally on the masticatory margin". Also on p 1297, "cephalic sculpture is unusual, consisting entriely of dense reticulate-punctuation, without trace of the costulae, rugulae or extensive smooth areas seen so commonly elsewhere in the genus".

Seemingly common/widespread in the northern parts of Cape Province. 

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0280938. Photographed worker mentioned by Bolton & Marsh (1989: 1297).