Polyrhachis esarata Bolton

Type location Ghana, (Bolton, 1973b: 303, illustrated, full body dorsal view, alitrunk and pedicel profile, anterior petiole); holotype worker only known, collected by pkd at Bunso, by D. Leston, 7.vii.1969 (Bolton, 1973b) .

Bolton's description (1973b) is at

WORKER - TL 7.2 mm; erect hairs present on the anterior clypeal margin and the gastral apex, plus the single pair on the dorsum of the head. Pubescence dense on alitrunk, with a pale brassy tint on the dorsum. Sculpturation everywhere of a fine dense reticulation. Colour black, legs, especially tibiae, very dark brown-black; palpi and antennal apex yellow-brown.