Temnothorax affinis (Mayr, 1855)

From Mann, (1920) [1]

Worker.—Length 3.25-3.50mm.

Head ovate, longer than broad, with straight posterior border. Mandibles stout,5-dentate. Clypeus flattened above, with a median longitudinal and two lateral curved carinae; anterior border narrowly but distinctly concave at middle. Eyes strongly convex, situated at middle of sides of head. Antennae slender, their scapes slightly surpassing the occipital borders; first funicular joint as long as the two succeeding joints together; club poorly defined, its terminal joint a little shorter than the other two together. Thorax and epinotum two and a half times as long as broad; pronotum scarcely broader than epinotum. Epinotal spines as long as petiolar peduncle, rather thick at basal half, curving downward at middle, with the tips bent distinctly upward. Peduncle of petiole slender, about as long as node, with a small angular tooth anteroventrally and tubercles at base of node; node longer than high, broad and feebly rounded above, with sloping anterior and posterior surfaces; from above, longer than broad, with rounded sides. Postpetiole one and a half times as broad as petiole, a little broader than long; seen from the side, longer than high and rather fiat above. Gaster short; sting large.Femora incrassate and tibiae almost as strongly so. Shining, the gaster and legs much more strongly than the rest. Mandibles and scapes finely striate and punctate.

Head, thorax and epinotum densely and coarsely rugose puntcate longitudinally. Petiole and postpetiole with concentric strizeg gaster and legs smooth.

Long and fine white pubescence rather abundant on head, body and appendages.

Antennae, gaster, border of mandibles, apical half of femora, base and apex of tibize and the tarsi black, the rest rufo-testaceous.

Cuba :—Felton; Piedra Gorda.

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