Axinidris bidens

Identification
Snelling (2007) - Pronotal humeri and propodeal spines each with a single long fully erect hair, mesosoma otherwise without erect hairs; antennal scape shaft without erect hairs; medial carina absent and propodeal spines distinct.

Shattuck (1991) - A. bidens is similar to Axinidris parvus in its lack of both a medial propodeal carina and strigulate sculpturing near the mandibular insertion. It can be separated from A. parvus by its larger size, darker head and alitrunk colour, and stronger sculpturing on the lateral areas of the head. Additionally, A. bidens is similar to Axinidris tridens in having the propodeal spines reduced to angles, but differs in several other characters including the possession of an elongate erect hair on each propodeal spine.

Key to Axinidris species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Central African Republic, Ghana, Kenya.

Nomenclature

 *  bidens. Axinidris bidens Shattuck, 1991: 111, figs. 8-10, 35 (w.) GHANA. Snelling, R.R. 2007: 557 (q.).