Apenesia punctata Kieffer, 1904

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Apenesia punctata Kieffer, 1904

Apenesia punctata Kieffer 1904 , 41: 364, 366. ♀; Kieffer 1908, 76, 25 (catalog); Kieffer 1914, 41: 392, 393; Medler 1980, 30: 469 (list).

Apenesia punctulata Krombein 1989 , 91: 620, 624 (replacement name for Epyris punctatus Cameron, 1888 ); Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 210 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Female. Length 6.0 mm. Color. Body castaneous, metasoma dark castaneous. Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus extending back frons, median lobe with apical margin almost straight, apical margin with bristles, median carina absent. Eye dark, elliptical, with about 11 facets. Malar space short. Frons aciculate, punctures small and very sparse. Head subquadrate with sides subparallel, vertex slightly concave, 1.0 × as long as wide. Dorsal pronotal area with sides nearly parallel, anterior margin with median emargination. Maximum width of metapectalpropodeal complex 1.6 × its minimum width. Mesopleuron without longitudinal carina dividing dorsal and lateral faces. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma slightly longer than head and mesosoma together, petiole long.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: Mte. Camerun, Buea , 800–1200m. s. m., VI–VII.1902, L. Fea. ( MSNG).

Comments. The holotype was examined at MSNG but there was no time for illustration of the type. According to Kieffer (1904) A. punctata is similar to A. nigra and A. amazonica .

Distribution. Afrotropical ( Cameroon).