Polyrhachis khepra Bolton

Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1973b: 334, illustrated, worker). Holotype worker and one paratype from Kibi, collected by P.M. Room, 24.iii.1970, presumably in his cocoa canopy sampling, Room, 1971 .

Bolton's description (1973b) is at

WORKER - TL 5.2-5.6 mm; characterised by very reduced sculpturation, lack of sutures on dorsal alitrunk and no propodeal armament. Petiole with relatively long straight dorsal spines and paired small lateral teeth, and a narrow, longitudinal keel-like ventral process. Entirety of body densely clothed with fine long, erect, yellowish hairs; pubescence sparse but long and grey. Colour black, alitrunk and gaster polished, head duller; antennal funiculi yellow-brown, especially apically (Bolton, 1973b, illustrated, full body dorsal view, alitrunk and pedicel profile, anterior petiole).