Leptanilloides manauara

This species was only collected in one soil sample in a reserve of 100 ha of primary Amazonian forest, surrounded by continuous primary lowland forest.

Identification
The coarse sculpture on the head, the shape of the propodeum, the concave dorsal outline of the alitrunk and the relatively small petiolar ventral process is an unique combination for Asphinctanilloides manauara.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil.

Nomenclature

 *  manauara. Asphinctanilloides manauara Brandão, Diniz, Agosti & Delabie, 1999: 33, figs. 13, 14, 20, 27, 44-47, 82-88 (w.) BRAZIL.

Worker
Paratype (MZUSP, in mm, n 5 1): HL 0.41, HW 0.35, SL 0.27, WL 0.44, CI 87, SI 76, SRI 78.

The coarse sculpture on the head, the shape of the propodeum, the concave dorsal outline of the alitrunk and the relatively small petiolar ventral process is an unique combination for Asphinctanilloides manauara. Other relevant characters include: head wide (CI . 85), coarsely sculptured; sides rounded in full-face view; blunt teeth on genae produced; in lateral view, dorsal outline of alitrunk slightly concave at the metanotal groove; propodeum dorsum continuous with declivity. Venom apparatus: quadrate plate anterodorsal corner short without apex (Fig. 83); anal plate triangular, with width at base twice its height, with about thirty sensillae (Fig. 84); oblong plate anterior apodema wide (Fig. 86); postincision absent, ventral arm of the apodema indistinct; fulcral arm absent; gonostylus with about twelve very small sensillae; furcula with elongate wing like convergent sclerotized projections, linked to the median region of the furcula only at basal region, lateral arms absent; sting with triangular bulb base (Fig. 88); basal ridge narrow, anterolateral process short and anterior to the articular process, and short articular process at the basal region of the sting bulb.

Type Material
Holotype worker deposited at. BRAZIL, Amazonas, 4832, c. 70 km N of Manaus, Fazenda Esteio, Reserva 1301(02°26’13”S, 59°48’35”W), ZF 23 Road, km 28. ‘Projeto Dinamica Biologica de Fragmentos Florestais, INPA/Smithsonian’, 14.xii.1993, soil sample H46. A. B. Casimiro col # 1001. Paratype workers (same series as holotype) deposited (one each) at, , CEPLAC, and MZUSP.

Etymology
Manauara, a noun in apposition, related to the way local people living in the Manaus and surroundings call themselves.