Second African Species of the Dacetine Ant Genus Codiomyrmex

Codiomyrmex Wheeler, sensu Brown 1948, includes 4 previously described, worker-based species: C. thaxteri Wheeler, 1916 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Z00L, 60 (8) : 327, Port of Spain, Trinidad) ; C. loveridgei Brown, 1953 (Am. Midi. Nat., 50 (1): 21-23, Nyika Plateau, Nyasaland) ; C. semicomptus Brown, 1949 (Breviora, 108: 9-1 1, Shipton’s Flat, Queensland, Australia); and C. flagellatus Taylor, 1962 (Breviora 152: 7-9, Clump Point, Queensland, Australia). Several others originally described in the genus have been placed elsewhere by Brown (1948).