Axinidris hylekoites 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 : 560

publication ID

21291

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6246174

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Axinidris hylekoites Shattuck
status

 

Axinidris hylekoites Shattuck View in CoL   HNS

Axinidris hylekoites Shattuck, 1991: 114   HNS ; figs. 14 - 16 (w, q). GHANA, Tafo (B. Bolton) ( BMNH) examined .

Worker diagnosis. Head and mesosoma reddish, gaster yellow; scape and pronotum each with 4 or more erect hairs; medial carina present; distance between spines less than PPW.

Worker measurements (mm) (n = 4). HW 0.69; HL 0.76 - 0.79; SL 0.57 - 0.61; OVD 0.25 - 0.27; PNW n / a; PPW 0.32 - 0.33; WL 0.71 - 0.92. Indices. CI 88 - 91; CNI 77 - 119; OI 25 - 28; SI 83 - 88.

Worker and Queen have been adequately described by Shattuck; the male caste remains unknown.

DISCUSSION

This species is known only from the several specimens comprising the type series. They were collected from a nest in a rotten tree branch.

As Shattuck (1991) originally noted it is most similar to A. murielae   HNS but differs in the lighter body color. The surface sculpture of the head is slightly coarser and the propodeal spines slightly wider; this latter difference is almost certainly sufficiently variable as to be of little value.

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

Loc

Axinidris hylekoites Shattuck

Snelling, R. R. 2007
2007
Loc

Axinidris hylekoites

Shattuck 1991: 114
1991
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