Technomyrmex (Engramma) taylori (Santschi)
  Type location Mozambique
(Engramma Tailori n. sp., Santschi, 1930d: 269, not illustrated)
Is de
Inhaca in Delagoa Bay; on dead branches of mangrove; 5.vii.1929;
collector S.F. Taylor; worker only described (see Bolton, 1995); name
emendation by Bolton (2007) reflecting name used by Santschi in Taylor,
J.S. (1931:42)  .
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Santschi's (1930d) description is at  . Bolton's (2007) re-description, not
illustrated, is at  .
In brief - WORKER; Bolton,
2007, has TL 3.2-3.3 (shown by the type images); colour variably dark chestnut brown; gaster
blackish, funiculus, base of scape and tarsi rust; rest of appendages
rust-brown. Shiny to submatt. Head finely reticulate with short weak
pubescence. Several long hairs around the mouth, on propodeum declivity
and gastral apex. Head as long as wide, posterior third straight to
slightly convex. Eyes at midpoint of head; rounded depression at site
of median ocellus. Clypeus with deep notch; mandibles with 10-13 teeth,
1st, 2nd and 4th apical longest. Scape long, surpassing occiput by one
and a half times its width. Funiculus segments 2-5 a little long than
wide; the following more so. Promesonotal suture feebly impressed when
viewed in profile. Base of propodeum more convex across than in ilgi
and the elongated thorax also relates this to ilgi, as does the
large head.
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The
photomontage of the type worker is collated from -