Axinidris hypoclinoides

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.

Key to Axinidris species

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

Castes
Known only from the worker caste.

Nomenclature

 *  hypoclinoides. Technomyrmex hypoclinoides Santschi, 1919h: 89 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Combination in Axinidris: Bolton, in Snelling, R.R. 2007: 561. Senior synonym of parvus: Bolton, in Snelling, R.R. 2007: 561; Bolton, 2007: 121.
 * parvus. Axinidris parvus Shattuck, 1991: 118 (w.) LIBERIA. Junior synonym of hypoclinoides: Bolton, in Snelling, R.R. 2007: 560; Bolton, 2007: 121.