Oligomyrmex (Aneleus) perpusillus (Emery)

Major - Minor - Type location South Africa (Pheidologeton perpusillum, Emery, 1895h: 26, illustrated, major & minor); subspecies arnoldianus (as Pheidologeton perpusillum r. arnoldi, Forel, 1914d: 242, minor; Arnold, 1926: 255, major; Arnold, 1926: 238, queen; replacement name arnoldianus, Ettershank, 1966: 123) from Zimbabwe, condecens (as Aneleus perpusillus st. condecens, Santschi, 1914b: 77, major & worker) from Tanzania & Kenya and spinosus (Pheidologeton (Aneleus) perpusillum ssp. spinosus, Forel, 1907a: 17, major) from Tanzania; queen, soldier and worker described (see Bolton, 1995). NOTE the specimens described as Oligomyrmex arnoldi by Forel (1913a: 123) were combined in Carebara by Santschi (1914d: 363) .

Emery's (1895h) description is at . Forel's (1907a) description of spinosus is at . Santschi's (1914b) description of condecens is at . Forel's (1914d) description of arnoldianus is at . Arnold (1916: 254) gave a translation and description of the "arnoldi" soldier, this is at . Arnold (1926: 238) described the "arnoldi" queen, this is at .

The photomontage is of a minor specimen collected from Usambara Mts, Tanzania; Zigi Lodge, Amani NR; S 5°05' E 38°38'; 2200 m; Vasily Grebennikov, 9-11.x.2002; this appears to match the description given for spinosus, which is from the same geographical area. Other images can be seen in the folder at -