Tapinoma carininotum Weber
  Type location South Sudan
(Tapinoma carininotum spec.
nov., Weber, 1943c: 379, illustrated, worker) Imatong Mountains,
22.vii.1939, N A Weber - no images on Antweb (August 2015).
Worker only described
(see
Bolton, 1995)  .
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 Weber's
(1943c) description is at  .
Prior to receipt of specimens from Sudan, I thought this seemed very
likely to be a junior synonym of Tapinoma lugubre.
However, it seems carininotum
is a relatively dusky yellow colour, with weakly contrasting legs and
antennae, whilst the true lugubre
is quite dark brown with more strongly contrasting pale legs.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det.
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Ghana
S Sky Stephens
05G0004
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2005
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in personal
collection of S Sky Stephens
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1
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det. |
Benin
J-F Vayssieres
RVA 2933
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15.ix.2012
Korobourou
09°22'13'' N
02°40'16'' E
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Mangifera indica orchard
Quadrat 4, tube 5, variété: Dabshar
Ground nesting
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2
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det. |
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Tapinoma Cameroon60
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17.xii.2005
Awae II
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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Pitfall
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1
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det. |
Cameroun
A Fotso Kuate
Sample 50
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28.vii.2010
Awae II
03°54'30" N
11°25'58" E
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2
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det. |
Cameroon
Francis Feugang
3C7
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13.x.2009
Yaoundé
03°52' N
11°31" E
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sur le cadavre de
rat, capture par le fillet
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1
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det. |
Cameroon
Francis Feugang
14D1
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13.x.2009
Yaoundé
03°52' N
11°31" E
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sur le cadavre de
rat, capture par le fillet
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2
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Tapinoma carininotum
B Taylor det. |
Sudan
J Mathews
JM402
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20.x.2001
Abu Gmein, Blue Nile
11°21' N
34°27' E
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pyrethrum fogging of sengealia senegal
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1
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 Nigeria
specimens (as Tapinoma detorquens, Taylor, 1978: 51). WORKER.
TL 1.87 mm, HL 0.51, HW 0.39, SL 0.47, PW 0.25
Colour medium dark yellow-brown, shiny. Eyes set well forward of the
midline of the sides of the head. Erect seta at the gastral apex and on
the clypeus and mandibles. Dense fine flat pubescence. Propodeum with
an acute apex.
Cameroun specimen notes - mandibles and appendages pale
yellowish-brown.
Ground nesting, in dead wood and in the soil. It was fairly abundant on
cocoa at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, on up to
5% of trees in some blocks, but usually not so common. It can be
positively associated with Crematogaster depressa and
negatively associated with Pheidole megacephala (Taylor, 1977).
Tends aphids. Also found on native herbaceous vegetation, cashew, kola
and oil palm.
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 The photomontage is of a wortker from Sudan,
Abu Gmein, Blue Nile; collector J Mathews (JM 402); one
specimen.
TL ca 2.0 mm, HL 0.53, HW 0.42, CI 75, SL 0.5, SI 138, PW 0.30, eye
length 0.15
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 The
photomontage is
of a worker from Cameroun; Awae II; collector A Fotso Kuate (fk
tapinoma cameroon c60)
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 The
photomontage is of a worker from Ghana, collected by S Sky
Stephens (05G0004).
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