Technomyrmex camerunensis group

The following is based on Bolton, 2007.

Species

• Technomyrmex camerunensis
• Technomyrmex schoedli
• Technomyrmex taylori

Notes

The members of this group may be linked to the albipes group by mayri, a Malagasy species that seems morphologically intermediate. Worker-queen intercastes remain undetected in the camerunensis group.

Description

This group contains three Afrotropical species that are very similar to the bicolor group in genera appearance, with the same elongate, narrowed mesothorax, but with setae present on either the head, pronotum, propodeal declivity or first gastral tergite, often on two or more of these. Setae are always present on the propodeal declivity where they arise from the margin at the level of the spiracle or below it, not from near the junction of dorsum and declivity distinctly above the spiracle. Median clypeal impression or notch is variable in shape and extent but always present. Palp formula in all species is 6,4.

Related Pages

• Technomyrmex
• Technomyrmex species groups

References

• Bolton, B. 2007b. Taxonomy of the dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute. 35(1):1-149.