Metapone manni

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Fiji.

Nomenclature

 *  manni. Metapone manni Taylor & Alpert, 2016: 529, figs. 96-100 (q.) FIJI.

Description
Gyne diagnosis. General and diagnostic features, sculpturation, pilosity and colour as illustrated and in the key to Pacific species above. Anteromedian section of clypeus extended forwards slightly beyond its lateral margins, with a narrow, transverse, tab-like anterior section, stepped on each side from a wider base; anterior border straight. Clypeal surface immediately behind anterior border slightly raised on each side producing reflections suggesting vestiges of denticles. Subpetiolar edge straight in profile; subpetiolar angle slightly obtuse, its apex narrowly rounded; subpetiolar extension small, approximately equilaterally triangular, its apex slightly inclined posteriad, its base about half as long as the subpetiolar edge.

Etymology. Named for William M, Mann, the pioneering doyen of Fijian myrmecology.