Anochetus pellucidus Emery
 Type
location Cameroun (Emery, 1902c: 14, worker - paper
incorrectly referenced in Bolton, 1995) collected by Conradt;
junior synonym aurifrons (Santschi, 1910c: 351, worker)
from Congo, Brazzaville, by A. Weiss; worker only
described (Brown, 1978: 558; Bolton, 1995)
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Emery's (1902c) description is at
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Santschi's (1910c) description is at
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Brown's (1978) description is at
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Nigeria specimens (Taylor, 1976: 15).
WORKER. TL 5.07 mm, HL 1.09, HW 1.09, SL 1.09 and PW 0.59
Colour golden-yellow, with a shiny transparent cuticle. Head very
finely striate, most noticeably on the dorsum. Alitrunk spiculate
especially on the propodeum. Petiolar node a scale with a
transversely rectangular apex. Eyes large, length 0.28 mm.
I collected it
nesting in debris in a cocoa jorquette at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre.
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 Bernard
(1952) recorded a single specimen from Guinea; from Nimba,
Camp IV, 1000 m (Lamotte, vi-1942), with a slightly bifid dorsal
margin to the petiole.
From Nigeria, Brown (1978c) examined a single worker
from in a cocoa tree trunk at CRIN (B. Bolton),
In Ghana, collected by pyrethrum knockdown at Kade by
Majer (1975, 1976b), with 27-33 workers per sample. Found in six
of Room's (1971) collections from cocoa canopy in southern Ghana.
Seven workers were collected by pkd from two areas of the canopy,
and one worker from the ground, in a block of Amelonado cocoa by
Bigger (1981a). Brown (1978c) had examined specimens from 9-10 km
north of Takoradi (2 workers, E.S. Ross and R.E. Leech), Adeiso,
pkd (3 workers, D. Leston) and CRIG, from under cocoa bark (1
worker, B. Bolton).
Cameroun specimens seen by Brown (1978c) came from Ekok,
30 km east of Tekmo (E.S. Ross and K. Lorenzen). He also reported
findings from Banco Forest, Ivory Coast (1 worker running
on a large rotten log in primary forest, W.L. Brown); Zaïre
and Gabon.
The photomontage is collated from
http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0010782
The fits the general description of pellucidus although
the eyes seem somewhat smaller than defined by Brown (1978).
Collection Information: Anochetus n. sp. cam-05 (Specimen
Images) Specimen Code CASENT0010782 Locality Cameroon: Sud: Res.
de Faune de Campo, Massif des Mamelles, 15.1 km 84° E Ébodjé;
02°35'39"N 009°57'34"E 180 m; Collection
codes: BLF02296; Date: 4 Apr 2000; Collected by: B.L.Fisher;
Method: EC19 sifted litter; Habitat: rainforest |
