Liometopum lindgreeni

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India. Palaearctic Region: China.

Nomenclature

 *  lindgreeni. Liometopum lindgreeni Forel, 1902d: 293 (w.) INDIA. See also: Del Toro, et al. 2009: 317.

Description
Worker

Del Toro et al, (2009): Head: Posterior medial concavity well defined. Lacking ocelli. Eyes oval shaped, medial rather than lateral, with 115 ommatidia. Antennal scapes slender (0.10 mm) surpassing posterior cephalic margin by more than two times maximum scape width. First and last funicular segments longest (0.18 mm), segments 1-5 and 11 longer than wide, segments 6-10 equally wide as long or wider than long. Anterior clypeal margin straight. Mandibles finely punctate, 10 teeth on masticatory margin, 2 reduced denticles on basal margin. Mesosoma: Anteriorly convex, posteriorly straight, in dorsal view widest at posterior edge of pronotum. Pronotum, arched. Promesonotum strongly convex. Metanotum straight, weakly depressed at metanotal suture. Legs long, slender, tibia 2/3 length of maximum femur length. Propodeal dorsal margin weakly convex. Posterior metapleural angle absent, dorsal posterior face of propodeum rounded, spiracle small, oval-shaped on posterior dorsal lateral surface. Petiole scale-like from posterior view, flat at apex, leaning anteriorly. Gaster: Smooth, lacking sculpturing, tergites 1-3 equal in size, 4-5 decreasing in size.

Coloration and Pilosity: Concolorous light brown species. Dorsal lateral cephalic margins with short, appressed pubescence. Antennal scapes with short, suberect hairs, funiculus with suberect to decumbent hairs. Up to 20 erect to suberect hairs surpassing anterior clypeal margin. Dorsal mesosomal surface covered in appressed pubescence, longest hairs on anterior dorsal mesonotum. Lateral mesosomal surface with sparse pubescence. Posterior petiolar surface lacking hair. Gaster entirely covered in appressed to suberect pubescence. Pubescence light brown to yellow.

Measurements and Indices (n = 1): TL 5.35, HL 1.06, HW 1.20, EL 0.24, EW 0.15, SL 1.03, PH 0.35, PL 0.23, CI 129, SI 96, PI 64.

Bingham (1903): Head, thorax, legs, nodes of pedicel and base of abdomen reddish brown; rest of the abdomen dark brown, the margins of the segments pale. Pilosity rather sparse, short and soft, pale yellowish in colour, somewhat more abundant on the abdomen than on the head and thorax; pubescence pale, very dense and decumbent, giving with the flne, close, minute reticulate punctate sculpture an opaque appearance to the whole insect. For the form of the head, thorax, &c. see the characters of the genus.

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