Loboponera trica

Specimens have been collected in rainforest from litter and dead wood.

Identification
Bolton & Brown (2002) - The only member of the trica species group. L. trica is a very distinctive small species that is easily recognised by its lack of standing hairs coupled with the presence everywhere of uniform fine dense sculpture.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Ivory Coast.

Nomenclature

 *  trica. Loboponera trica Bolton & Brown, 2002: 6, fig. 6 (w.) IVORY COAST.

Worker
Holotype. TL 3.0, HL 0.59, HW 0.55, CI 93, SL 0.43, SI 78, AL 0.90. Paratype. TL 3.0, HL 0.59, HW 0.55, CI 93, SL 0.47, SI 85, AL 0.90. Characters of trica group and the following. Maximum diameter of eye 0.02. Scape when laid back not reaching occipital margin. Dorsum of head opaque, extremely densely finely striolate-punctulate and with larger shallow foveolae that are overlaid and partially masked by the finer components of the sculpture. Alitrunk and gaster similarly sculptured, in places with the foveolae more conspicuous.

Type Material
Holotype worker, Ivory Coast: Abidjan, Banco Nat. Pk, 14.iii.1977, dead wood sample (I. Löbl). Paratype. 1 worker with same data as holotype.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Fisher B. L. 2006. Boloponera vicans gen.n. and sp.n. and two new species of the Plectroctena genus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 111-118.