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Myrmecolax kpelle, new species 



Figures 28-34 



Male: Body brown, 1.4 mm long and 0.35 mm wide between wings; 

 breadth of hingwing 1.5 mm and wing expanse 3.35 mm; aedeagus 

 0.24 mm. 



Head: Broad frontal region with slightly convex vertex. Flabellum 

 of antennal segment in reaches tip of vi; iv very small; segment vn 

 tapered and almost twice as long as vi. Eye with 4 ocelli on inner rim 

 visible from dorsal view. Mouthparts with slender mandibles two- 

 thirds length of maxillary palpus; robust maxillary palpus with 



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Figures 28-34. — Myrmecolax kpelle, new species: 28, body and antenna in dorsal aspect; 

 29, right hindwing; 30, hindleg; 31, middle leg, showing sensorium; 32, maxillary palpus; 

 33, mandible; 34, aedeagus, lateral view. (Figs. 30-34 use 0.2 mm scale.) 



proximal segment one-third as long as distal. Palpus and antennal 

 segments in-vn covered with tiny hairs and sensoria. 



Metathorax: Prescutum keystone shaped, w r ell defined, with 

 rounded anterior not projecting quite as far as tips of scuti; dome- 

 shaped scutellum about same length as precutum and separated by 

 some distance from it; postlumbium wide, with slightly sinuate 

 anterior margin; postscutellum equal in length to two-thirds the 

 anterior metathoracic sclerites. 



Hindwing: With 6 main veins; 2 detached below R, anterior one 

 being lightly forked. Mj one-half length of M 2 . 



