Plectroctena macgeei Bolton

Type location Nigeria (Bolton, 1974b: 330, illustrated, mandible and lateral petiole, worker) .

Bolton's description (1974b) is at

Nigeria specimen (Taylor, 1976: 29). WORKER. TL 9.5 mm, HL 2.05, HW 1.87, SL 1.31, PW 1.24
Colour dark red-brown, shiny. All over scattered small hair-pits, fine striations on lateral alitrunk.
Collected from soil under a log on the ground (B. Bolton, 28.x.1969)from the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre. The holotype worker from the same location was slightly larger (TL 10.8) and black in colour with legs and antennal scapes deep red-brown. It seems unlikely to be a different species to that described by me.

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102947.

Now also known from Ghana, where three individuals were found from leaf litter samples from Juaso secondary forest; and Atewa Forest Reserve, logged area; by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Bolton & Brown (2002) added findings from - Ghana, at Tafo, by D. Leston; and Nigeria, at IITA, Ibadan, by B.R. Critchley.

The photomontage is of a specimen from Ghana, collected by S Sky Stephens, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folder at -