Tetraponera mocquerysi (Ern. Andre ) variety lepida, Wheeler, W. M., 1922

Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269 : 106-107

Tetraponera mocquerysi (Ern. Andre) variety lepida , new variety

Worker.- -Length 6.5 to 7 mm. Differing from the typical form of the species in color, the thorax, petiole, gaster, and coxae being very dark brown or black; the head, mandibles, antennae, legs, anterior and posterior ends and ventral surface of the petiole, brownish yellow. Vertex with a large, transversely elliptical black spot reaching on each side nearly to the orbit. In one specimen the posterior portion of the pronotum is red. Shape of head and thorax, sculpture and pilosity of the body very much as in the typical form.

Female.-Length 6.5 mm. Very similar to the worker. Posterior borders of gastric segments brownish. Wings grayish hyaline, with pale brown veins and dark brown pterostigma.

Described from two workers from Faradje (type locality) and one from Yakuluku and a single female from Garamba (Lang and Chapin).