Monomorium draxocum Bolton

Type location Cameroun (Bolton, 1987: 385, not illustrated); collected at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson, 25.xi.1980); holotype and 5 paratype workers from same collection, plus 3 workers from the locality but earlier (6.x.1980); otherwise recorded from Buea (B. Malkin) .

Bolton's description (1987) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.7-1.9 mm; with sharply developed clypeal carinae, which are widely separated and near parallel, carinae not projecting forward of margin but the latter is sharply defined and no more than feebly concave; antennal scapes quite long (SI 106); colour head and alitrunk dark brown, gaster black; legs much lighter, pale yellow to colourless.

Elsewhere from Gabon, Plateau d'Ipassa (J.A. Barra) and Angola, Dundo, Carrisso Pk (L. de Carvalho) (Bolton, 1987). Since found in Ghana, 5 workers, in primary forest leaf litter at Mankrang Forest Reserve and Jachie, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

The photomontages are of specimens collected in Cameroun - south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project) - Cameroon 32 from location HEVE, 05 April 2001; in a dead caulinary domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana. Other images can be seen in the folder at -

Worker specimen 1

Worker specimen 2

Queen