Axinidris hypoclinoides

Besides the fact specimens have been collected from forests, nothing is known about the biology of .

Identification
Snelling (2007) - Antennal scape shaft without erect hairs and pronotum with 1 pair of long erect hairs and each propodeal spine with 1 long erect hair; head (excluding clypeus) with 2 pairs of erect hairs; medial propodeal carina absent; first tergum with 2 long erect hairs; gena shiny and finely imbricate; head and body yellow.

The presence of a single pair of relatively long erect hairs on the pronotal disc and a single such hair at the apex of each propodeal spine is an unusual feature shared only with Axinidris bidens, a larger and darker species. Both species are present in the Kakamega forest of Kenya, but A. bidens is encountered much more frequently.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Uganda.

Castes
Known only from the worker caste.

Nomenclature

 * . Technomyrmex hypoclinoides Santschi, 1919h: 89 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
 * Combination in Axinidris: Bolton, in Snelling, R.R. 2007: 561; Bolton, 2007a: 121.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 927; Shattuck, 1994: 162; Bolton, 1995b: 402; Snelling, R.R. 2007: 560; Bolton, 2007a: 121; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 202.
 * Senior synonym of parvus: Bolton, in Snelling, R.R. 2007: 561; Bolton, 2007a: 121.
 * parvus. Axinidris parvus Shattuck, 1991: 118 (w.) LIBERIA.
 * Status as species: Shattuck, 1994: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 77.
 * Junior synonym of hypoclinoides: Bolton, in Snelling, R.R. 2007: 560; Bolton, 2007a: 121.

Worker
Shattuck (1991) - (as parvus) Worker measurements (n=2). OOD 0.22, EL 0.13-0.17, HL 0.53-0.61, EW 0.06-0.09, HW 0.45-0.52, CNW 0.05, CND 0.03-0.04, SL 0.38-0.42, AL 0.72-0.76, PpW 0.21-0.24, SW 0.14, CI 0.85-0.86, eNI 0.65-0.74, REL 0.29-0.32, ScI 0.81-0.83, SpI 1.49-1.52.

Small (HW <0.53); area between propodeal spines smooth, without a medial carina; pronotum with 2 elongate, erect hairs; each propodeal spine bearing a single distinct, erect hair; head and alitrunk reddish yellow, contrasting with darker yellowish red gaster.

Head weakly coriarious dorsally, smooth laterally and ventrally; pilosity limited to one pair of erect hairs on the frontal lobes and one pair on the clypeus. Erect and suberect hairs absent from antennal scapes. Pronotum smooth; mesonotum and propodeum imbricate (weaker on anterior and lateral niesonotum). Pronotum with one pair of elongate hairs dorsally. Propodeal spiracles with the posterior surface only slightly depressed below the level of the anterior surface. Medial propodeal carina absent. Propodeal spines reduced to lateral angles partly connected by a carina, each bearing an elongate, erect setae, and with the area between them slightly concave. Erect hairs present on all gastric tergites. Head and alitrunk reddish yellow, gaster yellowish red, legs, petiole, antennae and mandibles yellow.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Bolton B. 2007. Taxonomy of the dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 35(1): 1-150.
 * Hita Garcia F., E. Wiesel, G. Fischer. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101: 127-222.
 * Shattuck S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112: i-xix, 1-241.
 * Snelling, R. R. 2007. A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris, pp. 551-579. In Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward (eds). Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E. O. Wilson  50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80.