Technomyrmex (Technomyrmex) albipes (F. Smith)
Bolton
(2007: 68) has this as including only:
Type location Sulawesi (Formica
(Tapinoma) albipes, F. Smith, 1861b: 38, worker; Forel, 1891b: 98,
queen; Karavaiev, 1926d: 441, male) - syntype below
junior synonyms
albitarse
(Motschulsky, 1863: 14, worker & queen; synonymy Emery, 1893f:
249) from Sri Lanka - no images on Antweb (October 2015)
bruneipes (Forel, 1895e: 466, worker) from Sri
Lanka - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0909789
nigrum (Tapinoma nigrum, Mayr, 1862: 703,
worker, synonymy, Mayr, 1876: 83) from Sri Lanka - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0915552
wedda
(Forel, 1913e: 663, worker & queen) from Sri Lanka - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0909792.
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Collingwood
(1985), reporting it from Saudi Arabia,
noted that this is a distinctive dark species with pale tarsi and
funiculus segments. Diagnostic characters he gave are - anterior border
of clypeus with a shallow, rounded incision; tarsi very pale
contrasting with the darker tibiae.
The photomontage of a syntype worker is collated from
http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0103002
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