The Ants of Africa
Genus Tapinoma
Tapinoma debouti Taylor new species

Tapinoma debouti Taylor new species

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server}Type location Cameroun .

WORKER DESCRIPTION: Head elongated, HL > HW, with a relatively straight occiput; mandibles large relative to size of head, inner margin with a series of small denticles rather than defined teeth. Anterior margin of clypeus with weak emargination; eyes set well forward of the midline of the sides of the head; scapes very short (under two-thirds of HL); funiculus apical segment swollen, segments 9-10 slightly larger than 2-8; alitrunk in dorsal view with near right angled anterior lateral shoulders; promesonotal suture arched forward; in profile near flat with a shallow depression at the mesonotum-propodeum junction; propodeum with rounded raised transition from dorsum to declivity, declivity flat; erect setae only on the clypeus; dense fine flat pubescence; head, alitrunk and gaster dull due to dense imbrication; colour dark brown, except antenna, tarsi and tibiae which are colourless.

TL 1.45-1.59 mm, HL 0.47, HW 0.40, CI = 112, SL 0.31, SI = 77, PW 0.26

Specimens collected in Cameroun - south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project)
Cameroon 60 from location LOL, 10 April 2001 (Lolabé - river at 2°39.40' N 9°51.81' E; road descending to river), six workers
Cameroon 28 from location GRO, 25 March 2001 (Grotte - at 2°34.05' N 9°54.01' E), one queen and seven workers
Cameroon 30 from location KIEN, 05 April 2001 (Kienké - swamp/river alongside plantations at 2°52.02' N 9°59.13' E; marshy land), two queens and four workers
All from in caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana.

Named in recognition of one of the two collectors, Gabriel Debout.

Specimens deposited in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Tapinoma debouti
B Taylor det.
Cameroun
McKey Project
Cameroon 30

05.iv.2001
Kienké
2°52.02' N
9°59.13' E
from caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana
swamp/river alongside plantations; marshy land
2 queens & 4 workers on 2 points
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Tapinoma debouti
B Taylor det.
Cameroun
G Debout & A Dalecky
Cameroon 60
10.iv.2001
Lolabe
2°39.40' N
9°51.81' E
from caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana
road descending to river
7 on 1 points
1
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Tapinoma debouti
B Taylor det.
Cameroun
G Debout & A Dalecky
Cameroon 28
25.iii.2001
Grotte
2°34.05' N
9°54.01' E
from caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana
8 on 2 points


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{Tapinoma debouti nsp C60}

The photomontage is of the Cameroon 60 worker.  


{Tapinoma C28}Second worker from Cameroon 28


Tapinoma debouti queenThe photomontage is of a queen collected with workers from Cameroon 30.

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