Axinidris ghanensis

This species is known only from two collections. Nothing is known of its biology, although it is assumed to be arboreal.

Identification
Snelling (2007) - Antennal scape without and pronotum with erect hairs; medial carina present and subacute in profile; distance between spines less than PPW; gastral tergum 2 shiny and sparsely punctate. The most similar species is Axinidris luhya.

Shattuck (1991) - A. ghanensis is similar to Axinidris murielae in sculpturing, head pilosity, the configuration of the propodeal spines and medial carina, and body colour, but differs in lacking erect or suberect hairs on the antennal scapes and in having fewer erect hairs on the pronotum and gastric tergites. It occurs sympatrically with, and is larger than, Axinidris murielae in Ghana. It is approximately the same size as Axinidris murielae from Cameroun.

Key to Axinidris species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Ghana, Uganda.

Castes
Known only from the worker caste.

Nomenclature

 *  ghanensis. Axinidris ghanensis Shattuck, 1991: 114, fig. 35 (w.) GHANA. See also: Snelling, R.R. 2007: 560.