Axinidris kakamegensis Shattuck, 1991

Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. (Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80), pp. 551-579 : 562-563

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21291

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6246180

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scientific name

Axinidris kakamegensis Shattuck
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Axinidris kakamegensis Shattuck View in CoL   HNS

Axinidris kakamegensis Shattuck, 1991: 115   HNS ; figs. 17 - 19, 35 (w). KENYA, Kakamega Forest (A. E. Stubbs) ( BMNH) examined .

Worker diagnosis. Scape and pronotum without erect hairs; head broader than long and vertex without erect hairs; distance between spines greater than PPW.

Worker measurements (mm) (n = 1). HW 0.97; HL 0.96; SL 0.69; EL 0.24; OVD 0.37; PNW n / a; PPW 0.40; WL 1.10. Indices. CI 102; CNI 161; OI 24; SI 71.

Worker description. The worker has been adequately described by Shattuck (1991).

Queen and male unknown.

DISCUSSION

Known only from the worker type specimen from an unspecified locality in the Kakamega Forest.

BMNH

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Axinidris

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