Axinidris nigripes

Identification
Snelling (2007) - Scape and pronotum with erect hairs; medial carina present; distance between spines exceeding PPW; hairs of head and mesosoma brown, coarse and seta-like.

This species is similar to both Axinidris luhya and Axinidris palligastrion. It differs from the latter in its larger size, deeper clypeal notch and differing color pattern, the gaster being darker than the head and mesosoma, the reverse of the pattern in A. palligastrion. From A. luhya, A. nigripes differs by the coarser, darker mesosomal hairs (fine and yellowish in A. luhya).

Key to Axinidris species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Ghana.

Castes
Known only from the worker caste.

Nomenclature

 *  nigripes. Axinidris nigripes Shattuck, 1991: 117, fig. 35 (w.) GHANA. See also: Snelling, R.R. 2007: 569.