Technomyrmex species T4
Worker (Nigeria specimens, Taylor, 1978: 57) - size variable. TL
2.03-2.49 mm, HL 0.62-0.72, HW 0.54-0.62, SL 0.62-0.72, PW
0.36-0.40
Colour yellow-brown but gaster darker. Appearance dull to due a
very fine overall pubescence and a fine reticulate sculpturation.
The latter forms a distinct longitudinal pattern on the pronotum.
Erect hairs only on the ventral apex of the gaster, on the clypeus
and a single short seta near the base of the fore coxa. In
profile, the alitrunk is smoothly convex through the pronotum and
mesonotum; the propodeum has an obtuse curved angle and the
declivity is flat.
In Nigeria, my only collections were made at night in a
house on CRIN, foraging in a column from a nest within the wall.
The specimens probably are among those listed by Bolton
As Technomyrmex species T4
in Taylor (1981) but listed without reference by Bolton (2007).
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