Apenesia nigra Kieffer, 1904

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Apenesia nigra Kieffer, 1904

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Apenesia nigra Kieffer 1904 , 41: 364–365; Kieffer 1908.76: 25 (catalog); Kieffer 1914, 41: 392–393; Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 207 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Female. Length 8.0 mm. Color. Body black except mandible, scape, tibiae and claws reddish, metasoma castaneous. Mandible with two apical teeth, uppermost small. Clypeus short with apical margin of median lobe rounded, median carina short. Eye gray, oval, with about 16 facets. Malar space very short. Frons coriaceous and shining, punctures small and very sparse. Head subquadrate with sides subparallel, vertex almost straight, 0.95 × as long as wide. Dorsal pronotal area with sides parallel, anterior margin with median emargination. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.6 × its minimum width. Mesopleuron without carina dividing dorsal and lateral faces. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma longer than head and mesosoma together, petiole short.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: Is. S. Thomé, Aqua-Ize, XII.1900, 400– 700m., L. Fea. ( MSNG)

Distribution. Afrotropical ( São Tomé and Príncipe).

Figures

FIGURE 26. Body. A. Apenesia dominica; B. Apenesia flavipes; C. Apenesia formosa; D. Apenesia levis, E. Apenesia nigra; F. Apenesia proxima; G. Apenesia substriata; H. Apenesia unicolor; I. Apenesia vaurieorum. (Scale 250µm).