Tapinoma new species King 47 and Tapinoma species T¹

TL 1.87 mm, HL 0.50, HW 0.40, SL 0.40, PW 0.28

Colour all over yellow-brown. Erect hairs on ventral apex of the gaster, on the clypeus and 2 on the fore coxa. Dense fine pubescence. Eyes set in slight depressions on the sides of the head. Alitrunk almost flat in profile, with propodeum obtusely angled and the declivity flat.

In Nigeria, I collected it from a nest in dead wood on a cocoa tree at CRIN (Taylor, 1978: 49).

The photomontage is of specimens collected in Mali - Bamako, 12.37.48 N 08.00.27 W, 323 m; 25.viii.2007; hotel grounds in central Bamako, foraging on wall on outside of stairwell, collected with Pheidole and Crematogaster ?; David M King. Other images can be seen in the folder at -