Axinidris kakamegensis

Known only from the worker type specimen from an unspecified locality in the Kakamega Forest.

Identification
Scape and pronotum without erect hairs; head broader than long and vertex without erect hairs; distance between spines greater than PPW.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Kenya.

Castes
Known only from the worker caste.

Nomenclature

 *  kakamegensis. Axinidris kakamegensis Shattuck, 1991: 115, figs. 17-19, 35 (w.) KENYA. See also: Snelling, R.R. 2007: 563.

Worker
Worker measurements (n=l). OOD 0.34, EL 0.24, HL 0.96, EW 0.13, HW 0.97, CNW 0.05, CND 0.09, SL 0.69, AL 1.10, PpW 0040, SW 0.38, CI 1.02, CNI 1.61, REL 0.24, ScI 0.71, SpIIA6. Head very broad (HW >0.95, CI <1.00); area between propodeal spines concave; gastric dorsum without erect hairs; body colour black.

Head finely punctate and superimposed with fine strigulate sculpturing; area near the mandibular insertion with a narrow area of strigulate SCUlpturing. Head with a few erect hairs between the frontal lobes and on the clypeus. Erect and suberect hairs absent from antennal scapes. Pronotum weakly imbricate dorsally, nearly smooth laterally and lacking erect hairs. Mesonotum and propodeum finely and closely punctate. Propodeal spiracles similar to tridens. Medial propodeal carina expanded posteriorly and limited to the basal face of the propodeum. Propodeal spines projecting postero-Iaterally, with the outer surfaces concave, the distal ends approximately the same width as the maximum propodeal width, and the area between them concqve. Erect hairs absent from gastric tergites. Body colour black; anterior and venter of head, legs and clypeus reddish black; mandibles reddish black posteriorly, yellowish red distally; tarsi dark yellowish red.

Type Material
Type material. Holotype worker from KENYA: Kakamega Forest (A. E. Stubbs).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * 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. 1991. Revision of the dolichoderine ant genus Axinidris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 16: 105-120.
 * 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.