Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) abyssinica Forel

Type location Ethiopia (Plagiolepis exigua Forel, r abyssinica, n. st., Forel, 1894b: 73, worker, not illustrated; raised to species Collingwood, 1985: 297); worker only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1894b) description is at - . Collingwood (1985) who raised it to species status has - "size very small, TL < 1.3 mm" HL 0.35, HW 0.28, SL 0.28, CI 80, SI 100; "body and appendages completely pale yellowish brown; eye length one-sixth of head length; slightly larger and darker than the oriental P. exigua, TL 1.12 mm". Forel had the colour as brown-black, with the mid-alitrunk reddish brown and the gaster and antennae brownish-yellow.

For comparision, Forel's (1894c: 417) description of exigua is at - . With a description in English by Bingham (1903: 323) at .