Technomyrmex (Technomyrmex) schoutedeni Forel
Type location Zaïre
(Technomyrmex Schoutedeni n.
sp., Forel, 1910e: 447, worker, male & queen) collected at Bena
Dibele,
by Luja - see below
junior synonym okiavoensis (Engramma Zimmeri For. r. okiavoensis n. stirps, Forel, 1916:
431, worker; synonymy Bolton, 2007: 34) from Zaïre, Okiavo,
near St. Gabriel, Kohl - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0909759
all forms described (Wheeler, 1922 and Bolton, 1995) .
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Forel's
(1910e) description is at . Forel's (1916) description of okiavoensis
is at . Bolton's (2007)
re-description is at .
WORKER - TL 3.6-4.3 mm; palp formula 6,4; apical margin
of
clypeus widely excavated; mandibles large, slightly shiny, extremely
finely striated or shagreened with several piligerous punctures; scape
surpasses occiput by about 1/6 its own length; alitrunk weakly convex
with a marked suture; mesonotum dorsum slightly long than wide, with
raised spiracles; propodeum strongly domed as in semiruber,
spiracles well raised tubercular with a strong hair; head and pronotum
subopaque, partly matt, very densely puncturate, rest of alitrunk matt
and densely reticulo-punctate; gaster shiny but finely reticulate; very
few erect hairs, 2-3 yellowish on alitrunk; pubescence yellowish, very
fine, quite distinct and abundant throughout; brown, mandibles dull
red, gaster dull yellow or slightly brown; related to andrei
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The photomontage of a
syntype worker is collated from - http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905069.
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