The Ants of Africa
Genus Paratrechina
Paratrechina incallida (Santschi)
{Paratrechina incallida}

Paratrechina incallida (Santschi)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location São Thomé I. (Prenolepis incallida, Santschi, 1915c: 263, illustrated, worker); worker only .

Santschi's (1915c) description is at {original description}.

Santschi's (1915c) description is -
WORKER - TL 2.2 mm; head oval. Eyes quite large, set a little forward of midline. Clypeus convex (less so than lepida), subcarinate, anterior border weakly but quite broadly scalloped medially. Mandibles smooth with sparse puncturations; 6 teeth, the third very small (albipes has four teeth). Scape surpassing occiput by more than half its length. Thorax somewhat elongated; pronotum wider than long, very rounded dorso-laterally; mesonotum as long as anterior width, feebly raised posteriorly; metanotum a little wider than long, with the spiracles quite close and raised dorsally. Propodeum convex and very elevated; dorsum shorter than the declivity. Petiole scale very obliquely angled forward, summit feebly convex and wider than the base.
Colour clear red brown; gaster darker; funiculus, tibia and hind femora clear yellow. Smooth with front of head feebly reticulate. Shiny. Moderately abundant, brown, quite sharp, erect hairs; four pairs of macrochaets on alitrunk; metanotum and propodeum without hairs. Pubescence scarce except on antennae.
Holotype worker only from San Thomé.


{Paratrechina incallid}The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon; Pongara National Park, Pointe Wingombe 0°19'336"N 9°19'102"E, 23.vii-19.viii.2006, from malaise trap at edge of forest, small savannah area alongside the lagoon, collector Yves Braet.

Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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