Carebara junodi Forel
queen -
Type location South Africa (Forel, 1904a: 154, queen;
Forel, 1909b: 53, male; Forel, 1913b; 336, worker); all forms
described (see Bolton, 1995)
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Forel's (1904a) description of the queen is at
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Arnold (1916: 252) gave a translation, this is at
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Forel (1909b) reducing it to the status of a subspecies of vidua
(later revived by Santschi, 1914d: 364, in key) argued that the
distinctive characters of the clypeus, head, etc. varied among
individuals. Katange females had a gaster which was reddish but
with straight brown bands across the junctions of the segmens, in
the type of vidua the gaster is brown with straight basal
yellow bands on the segments. The males were a little longer than
vidua but with a stronger yellow gaster.
Santschi (1935a: 263), writing about a worker specimen from Zaïre,
Lumbumbashi (then Elizabethville), collected by Dr Gerard, noted -
this species has mandibles with the terminal border very oblique
and armed with three teeth; the two apical teeth very strong and
separated from the third by a longer interval; behind these the
terminal border is also prolonged, sometimes with and sometimes
without a denticle or two - hence the "four teeth"
mentioned in his earlier key. By comparison with earlier specimens
the antennal club is more slender, with the first segment as wide
as long (as with arnoldi). |
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