MAJOR - new description
TL 4.0-4.5 mm (may be smaller); CI 96 SI 41 OI 14
Clypeus smooth and shiny with a weak median longitudinal carina;
frontal carinae short and weakly divergent posteriorly; lateral
propodeum and petiole densely spiculate less shiny; overall colour
dark yellow-brown;
Head in full face view cordate with a weakly impressed occiput
Mandibles small and relatively weak, wholly smooth.
Clypeus shiny with an indistinct median longitudinal carina
Frontal carinae very short and almost parallel
Antennae with both scapes and funiculi slender and quite short;
funiculus segments 2-7 all shorter than they are wide
Eye fairly small and weakly ovoid (13 facets long X 10 wide); set
1.8 X its own length back from the lateral margin of the clypeus
Hypostoma with a very narrow border of the same colour as the
rest of the underside of the head, bearing quite large lateral
teeth but no median or sublateral teeth
Underside of head almost completely smooth and shiny
Alitrunk profile with a quite strongly domed pro-mesonotum,
without a transverse welt on the mesonotum or a pronounced drop
into the shallow metanotal groove; the propodeum profile is almost
flat with small narrow triangular teeth; the dorsum of the
propodeum is emarginate and ungrooved
Petiole in profile a low triangle, the upper margin rounded and
medially impressed
Postpetiole quite large and rhomboidal to lateral apices sharp,
in profile assymetrically globular with an antero-ventral process
Gaster much smaller than the head and quite narrow with a short,
straight anterior margin
Erect pilosity mostly fairly short, fine and quite abundant;
pubescence short, adpressed and generally sparse.
Overall appearance of fresh specimens is quite shiny;
sculpturation on head confined to fine striations on anterior
half; pronotum with fine transverse striations; mesonotum and
propodeum with faint but distinct spiculation;
General colour yellow-brown, with the gaster usually darker
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The
photomontage of the holotype (?) is adapted from the Antweb.org
site at
The
photomontage is of major specimens from Gabon, Pongara
National Park, Pointe Wingombé; 9-27.vi.2006; malaise trap
at edge of forest; collected by Yves Braet.
The
photomontage is of major workers from Saudi Arabia, Wadi
Abha, 18°12'59"N 42°30'19"E; 1.i.2008;
collector Mostafa Sharaf.