The Ants of Africa
Genus Technomyrmex
Technomyrmex (Technomyrmex) semiruber Emery

Technomyrmex (Technomyrmex) semiruber Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Emery, 1899e: 489, worker) collected by Conradt; worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1899e) description is at {original description}. Bolton's (2007: 35) re-description, not illustrated, is at {original description}.

Forel (1911d) wrote of Technomyrmex zimmeri as resembling Technomyrmex semiruber but that has the gastral apex terminal; appendages with erect hairs, the head shiny and the propodeum much shorter and more domed.


{Technomyrmex semiruber}The photomontage is of a queen from the Gabon, collected by Yves Braet, 2006 - diagnosis speculative but is of the right size and general colouration, pubescence, etc.

Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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