Simopone bakeri Menozzi

Bolton, Barry & Fisher, Brian L., 2012, Taxonomy of the cerapachyine ant genera Simopone Forel, Vicinopone gen. n. and Tanipone gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) 3283, Zootaxa 3283 (1), pp. 1-101 : 71

Simopone bakeri Menozzi

Simopone bakeri Menozzi, 1926: 92 . Holotype worker, SINGAPORE (C.F. Baker) (IEUB) [not seen]. [Redescribed by Taylor, 1966: 288.]

There is a single damaged dealate queen in MCZC (abdominal segments AIII to apex missing) which has the data “ Singapore, coll. Baker”. It matches adequately the original worker description of bakeri and most of the comments by Taylor (1966). It may well have been collected by Baker along with the holotype, but it was obviously not seen by Menozzi, who does not mention it. The maxillary palps of the MCZC specimen are short and the palp formula appears to be 4 (or perhaps 5), 3. If the maxillary palp has only 4 segments then bakeri will be unique in the genus. Perhaps the most obvious identifying character of this species is the anterior margin of the clypeus, which has a conspicuous prominent tooth at its midpoint, a character not shared with any other of the extralimital species. Taylor (1966) provides some extra notes on the holotype of bakeri .