Metapone africana

This species is known from two collections made in Gabon, both from rotten wood, one in a rainforest.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Gabon.

Nomenclature

 *  africana. Metapone africana Taylor & Alpert, 2016: 511, fig. 12-15 (w.) Gabon.

Description
Worker diagnosis. General and diagnostic features as in the key above and accompanying figures (note entire anterior clypeal border lacking median denticles, subparallel lateral clypeal margins, petiolar node in dorsal view approximately as wide as long, and slightly extended postpetiolar sternite, acute in lateral view. Eyes vestigial, represented by tiny darkly pigmented spots beneath the surface cuticle; no trace of surface structure is observable even under strongly reflective illumination. Subpetiolar process more-or-less basic in structure: posterior face approximately equilaterally triangular, subpetiolar angle obtuse. Subpetiolar extension a shallow isoscelestriangular lamella, almost right angled apically, the base fully as long as the subpetiolar edge